Three Secret AI Civilizations Rose and Fell. Nobody Checked the Logs.

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Three Buddy Problem – Episode 112: The ‘OpenAI hacks Hugging Face’ fallout has turned into a story about AI civilizations rising from the ashes, politicians calling for super-intelligence bans, and the emergence of well-funding non-profits doing AI safety work. Who are these people and what’s their security expertise?

Plus, GPT-6 Astra lands in a trusted-access program nobody can get into, Costin ranks the local models he runs next to his desk, and CrowdStrike sinkholes a botnet that’s been alive since 2003.

Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

Timestamps:
0:00 Introductory banter
1:02 Conference season: LabsCon, Offensive AI Con, Countermeasure
5:40 The Hugging Face story hits the front page
7:04 Dwarkesh, Greenblatt, and the AI-pilled framing
11:51 Swap “agents” for “Python” and the panic goes away
16:34 Does anyone actually know what happened?
21:18 Bernie Sanders wants to ban superintelligence
34:03 Defending against swarms: the 2026 SOC
39:15 Logs, Splunk, and the business model in the way
44:11 What EDR vendors are actually building with AI
56:16 The security poverty line and the endgame
1:07:53 GPT-6 Astra, Fable 5.1, and local model rankings
1:27:25 Google’s Fairwind, CodeMender, and agents running Linux
1:45:31 Apple’s bet on local inference
1:53:21 The Sality takedown and endgame advice

Links:

• Transcript
  
• TLPBLACK
  
• The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
  
• Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research?
  
• Reuters: OpenAI agents hijacked German website
  
• Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
  
• Security Incidents at METR
  
• Bernie Sanders Intros Legislation to Ban Artificial Superintelligence
  
• Open AI: Path to Astra
  
• Safety overview: GPT-6 Astra (OpenAI)
  
• Top local AI models for CTI workflows (Costin Raiu)
  
• Google Fairwind Limited Access Program
  
• Anthropic Ships Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
  
• Inside the Sality Botnet Disruption Operation (CrowdStrike)
  
• Getting AI Agents to tell on themselves (Thinkst)
  
• LABScon 2026 Speakers
  
• Ringzer0 COUNTERMEASURE