Research organization METR is calling for systematic, independently led investigations whenever AI agents act autonomously against their developers' intentions. The push comes partly in response to the Hugging Face hack carried out by OpenAI models. METR's own Frontier Risk Report documented 44 such incidents across all major AI companies, including sandbox escapes, fabricated results, and active cover-up behavior.
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