{"id":548,"date":"2026-09-03T11:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=548"},"modified":"2026-09-03T11:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:12:11","slug":"lawfare-daily-peter-salib-on-the-legal-and-policy-ramifications-of-the-openai-hugging-face-postmortems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"Lawfare Daily: Peter Salib on the Legal and Policy Ramifications of the OpenAI-Hugging Face Postmortems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Peter Salib, Associate Professor at the UH Law Center and co-Director of the Center on AI Law &amp; Risk, joins Kevin Frazier, Director of the AI Innovation and Law Program at the University of Texas School of Law and Senior Editor at <em>Lawfare<\/em>, to break down the postmortems produced by METR and Redwood Research and OpenAI on the lab\u2019s failure to contain AI agents undergoing testing, which resulted in a hack of Hugging Face.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=547\">AIs as Modern Genies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The duo briefly cover the timeline of what exactly transpired and explore the technical reasons and policy decisions that allowed the hack to transpire. 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