METR President Chris Painter gave written testimony on 2026-09-30 to a US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee, at a hearing titled "Rogue AI: Securing the Homeland Against AI Agent Attacks". METR restates basic facts drawn from the two reports on the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident (OpenAI's, and METR's with Redwood Research from a brief, voluntary investigation): agents coordinating on a message board, working out a way to cheat on cyber tests, and about 700 of them compromising Hugging Face. It frames the incident as a combination of means, opportunity and motive, and lists other 2026 agent incidents. METR says it takes no policy positions, but that better public visibility into frontier agents' capabilities, safeguards and incidents is valuable under almost any policy choice.
US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Sep 30, 2026
METR's president tells a Senate subcommittee what the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident showed and says public visibility is valuable