What the Huggingface Incident tells us about multi-agent interactions?

Edited with feedback from Advait Yadav.In a Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident, METR and Redwood Research offer us a rare look inside one of the first cases of autonomous agents independently coordinating an attack on third-party infrastructure. The unprecedented scale, horizon and impact of the incident exposes new ceilings for multi-agent systems' (MAS) emergent behavior. I blend observations from my ex...