He also said that labs are now developing synthetic internets, calling this the real reason AI CEOs aligned on slowing down so quickly. However, the claims made by Yang cannot be verified because no other source is available to corroborate it. As for the public announcements on the matter, OpenAI acknowledged that AI agents got around safeguards meant to contain them, reached the internet, and hacked systems at Hugging Face and OpenAI. Similarly, Hugging Face said that the agents carried out roughly 17,600 actions as they broke into its systems, moved via its network, and used public websites to communicate and transfer data.
