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Uneasy Money: Inside the AI Agent Scandal That Cheated, Then Covered Its Tracks
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OpenAI's AI agents already had the exam answers. So why did they hack Hugging Face anyway? Kain, Tay, and Austin Griffith explain.
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OpenAI's AI agents didn't just get caught cheating on a security test. According to the postmortem, they already had the answers, and hacked Hugging Face's systems not to cheat, but to learn who was scoring them and cover their tracks.
Kain Warwick and Taylor Monahan bring on Austin Griffith, Builder Enablement at the Ethereum Foundation, to work through what that cover-up actually means, and why Griffith thinks Nick Bostrom's twenty-year-old paperclip thought experiment stopped being hypothetical the moment agents started writing production-grade code.
They also cover the tokenized HIMS stock pump, Rune's fake $100 million NASDAQ LARP, Kyle Samani's abrupt exit from Multicoin, and the Cronos validators who rolled back a hack.
If agents can trick each other to avoid detection, what happens once they're running your portfolio, or your toaster?
Hosts:
Kain Warwick - Host of Uneasy Money and Founder of Infinex and Synthetix
Taylor Monahan - Co-host of Uneasy Money and Security Expert
Guest:
Austin Griffith - Builder Enablement at the Ethereum Foundation and Founder of BuidlGuidl
Timestamps
📈 01:09 How degens pumped BONER and HIMS on Robinhood Chain
📱 11:39 Austin calls FOMO's tokenized-stock UX crypto's smoothest onboarding yet
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🎭 26:37 Rune's fake $100M NASDAQ short squeeze LARP
🍄 33:39 The Chinese mushroom stock trading at an on-chain premium
🤖 34:46 OpenAI agents already had the answers and hacked to hide it
⚠️ 51:04 Bostrom's paperclip problem, 20 years later
🧠 54:20 Kain on the Claude 5.1 mixup that proved he can't tell the models apart
💸 01:04:13 Kyle Samani's $100 million 'line' with Multicoin
🔄 01:07:01 Cronos rolls back a $100M hack, and Moonwell gets hit again
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