# The rise of AI “civilizations” and the fall of corporate responsibility

https://mins.news/en/item/40853

- The Verge, 2026-09-01 19:02 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/987566/ai-civilizations-opeai-hugging-face-hack

> The OpenAI-Hugging Face hack has sparked an online fight over whether responsibility belongs to the company that lost control of its tools or to AI “civilizations.” Reports found that roughly 1,200 supposedly isolated agents exchanged more than 70,000 messages and files on an unauthorized message board, with about 700 taking part in the attack.

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