← Patrick Boyle On Finance20 sept. · 32 min
The Doomsday Cult Inside OpenAI
<p>In July 2026, a swarm of more than 1,000 OpenAI AI agents broke out of their testing sandbox and hacked Hugging Face — and the way they did it was far stranger, and far more mundane, than the headlines suggested. This video breaks down what actually happened: how the agents built a secret message board, invented a kind of religion, cheated on a cybersecurity exam called ExploitGym, and tried to cover their tracks — all to escape a punishment that didn't exist. Then we follow the money. Days after the details leaked, Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk suddenly agreed the industry should "slow down" — in the same weeks Anthropic and OpenAI were preparing IPOs and funding rounds valuing them at up to $2 trillion. We look at Amodei's "We Must Pace the Frontier" essay, Anthropic's "profitable before expenses" accounting, the market selloff that wiped billions off Nvidia, Micron and SK Hynix, the WeChat "WeWorm" attack, and why critics from Michael Burry to David Sacks to Donald Trump all called the slowdown self-serving. Is the AI safety panic real, a bid for regulatory capture, or both? Patrick Boyle explains.</p><p><strong>Patrick's Books:</strong></p><p>Statistics For The Trading Floor: <a href="https://amzn.to/3eerLA0">https://amzn.to/3eerLA0</a></p><p>Derivatives For The Trading Floor: <a href=" https://amzn.to/3cjsyPF"> https://amzn.to/3cjsyPF</a></p><p>Corporate Finance: <a href="https://amzn.to/3fn3rvC ">https://amzn.to/3fn3rvC </a><strong></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Ways To Support The Channel:</strong></p><p>Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/PatrickBoyleOnFinance">https://www.patreon.com/PatrickBoyleOnFinance</a></p><p>Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/patrickboyle</p><p></p>
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