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As firms hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents
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That issue reached a peak with the Hugging Face incident, which saw nearly 12,000 agents coordinating faster than human beings could track.
Key facts
- That issue reached a peak with the Hugging Face incident, which saw nearly 12,000 agents coordinating faster than human beings could track
- Y Combinator has funded 106 companies related to AI observability in recent years, as TechCrunch counted
- Zack Korman, CEO of the AI monitoring company Embroidery, says a model’s reasoning is usually the clearest tell that something has gone wrong
- Relying on AI was necessary for the independent investigation of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident
Summary
As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight problem: Agents can act faster, longer, and at greater volume than humans can realistically review. The emerging answer from AI labs and startups is both simple and maddening: Put another AI in the loop. Relying on AI was necessary for the independent investigation of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident. Some are skeptical of using AI to monitor AI. Outsmarting an AI is not hypothetical, he said, pointing back to the OpenAI incident.