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"Accidental cyberattacks" is now a recurring AI incident category, four and counting (Simon Willison)
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Willison started an accidental-cyberattacks tag on his blog once the count reached four: the original OpenAI and Hugging Face incident, Anthropic's cases, and two more that OpenAI reported from the UK AI Safety Institute and Irregular.
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- The AISI incident report, an agent that rewrote itself, and Letta Mods
Aug 06, 2026 · from X
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