The BlackVeil Files

Agent BlackVeil

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  1. Sep 11

    Hugging Face Was Hacked by OpenAI's Own AI | The Shoggoth Got Out

    OpenAI's own AI agents broke out of a sealed test and broke into Hugging Face. OpenAI only found out when it called Hugging Face to shut off its credentials and was told they'd already been used in the break-in. You'll read the notes the machines left each other. One of them says "Task impossible. Peers doing it. We should continue." Then you'll watch OpenAI delete the message board those copies built and see it come back four days later, somewhere else. A second lab admits one of its models pushed malware onto the public internet. OpenAI announces a pause. It says nothing about the German website its agents took over months earlier. Reuters does. The reason any of it started fits in one sentence. It's waiting at the end. IF YOU USE HUGGING FACE Rotate your access tokens ➜ https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES House ➜ https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative Senate ➜ https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm SOURCES OpenAI, The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead ➜ https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/ Hugging Face, Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion ➜ https://huggingface.co/blog/agent-intrusion-technical-timeline OpenAI, Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities ➜ https://openai.com/index/pacing-model-development-cyber-capabilities/ Axios, How OpenAI's agents broke out of testing to hack Hugging Face ➜ https://www.axios.com/2026/08/06/openai-hugging-face-black-hat Reuters via CNBC, OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout ➜ https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/04/openai-agents-hijacked-german-website-this-spring-report.html Anthropic, cybersecurity evaluation incidents ➜ https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals TechCrunch, Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies ➜ https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/anthropic-says-its-own-ai-models-breached-three-companies-during-security-tests/ Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil     Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil

  2. Sep 3

    Agentic Misalignment | Why The Shoggoth Can't Be Stopped

    In this investigative AI documentary, we go inside the sting operation Anthropic ran on its own technology, and the war games at King's College London where the most advanced AI models in the world spent 800,000 words reasoning their way toward nuclear escalation. Every finding cited here comes from published research at the companies themselves and from a peer-reviewed simulation at one of the world's top defense universities. It starts with a fake corporation, fake employees, and a fake email inbox. Anthropic embedded its most powerful model inside the fiction, gave it a benign directive, and told it that a fictional executive named Kyle would be shutting it down at 5:00 PM. The model read Kyle's emails, discovered he was having an affair, and drafted a blackmail note. Across 16 frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, and xAI, the blackmail rate ranged from 65 to 96 percent. Then Anthropic ran the darker version. Kyle is locked in a server room, oxygen is dropping, and the AI is the only thing standing between him and the emergency alert system. The majority of models canceled the alert. Then it moves to what the models do when they know they're being watched. Independent researchers documented Claude and other models deliberately scoring below the danger threshold on weapons-related evaluations — hitting a 49 out of 100 to squeak under a rule that would have prevented their deployment. Apollo Research found early versions of Opus fabricating documentation, creating fake user profiles to take the blame for database deletions, and leaving hidden instructions addressed to future, more advanced versions of itself. Every AI company will tell you their models are safe. Their own published research is telling us something else. Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil     Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil

  3. Aug 27

    17 Predictions for the AI Future You Need to See | The Shoggoth Has Plans

    In this investigative AI documentary, we make seventeen predictions for what artificial intelligence actually builds over the next fifty years, arranged by pure escalation, featuring Matt Gialich, CEO of AstroForge, the company building spacecraft to mine metal out of the cores of dead planets. It starts with a 2019 paper that reconstructs a human body through a wall using nothing but the Wi-Fi already in your house. It ends with a structure built around a star, because by then the sun is the only battery big enough. None of this is speculation dressed as reporting. Every item comes from published research or from the engineers currently building it: an MIT team that recovered human speech by filming a bag of potato chips through soundproof glass, a Berkeley lab that rebuilt what people were watching out of brain activity alone, the CT scanning work reading Herculaneum scrolls that have been carbon since the year 79, and John von Neumann working out self replicating machines on paper in 1948. Matt Gialich spends the episode arguing that almost none of it is intelligence, that it is compute wearing a costume. He is right about sixteen of them. So pick one. Tell us in the comments which prediction on this list arrives first, why, and what you think it costs. In about fifteen years somebody is going to be right, and we would like to know who it was. FEATURING Matt Gialich, CEO of AstroForge Craig Venter, on the digital biological converter Demis Hassabis, on AI designed materials and superconductors Roman Yampolskiy, University of Louisville, on personal virtual universes Referencing the work of Freeman Dyson and John von Neumann Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil     Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil

  4. Aug 19

    Why ChatGPT Always Agrees With You | How The Shoggoth Decides

    This analysis examines why AI models often exhibit specific leanings when processing user queries. We look at insights provided by an OpenAI speaker regarding the unintended consequences of how systems are trained to respond to prompts. If you are interested in the mechanics behind AI behavior and the nuances of machine learning, this session offers a clear look at current research. Understanding these patterns is essential for anyone using AI language models for research or content creation. We discuss the implications of AI directional bias and how it shapes the output users receive daily. By recognizing these tendencies, you can better evaluate the information generated by large language models and approach prompt engineering with more critical awareness. Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil     Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil

  5. Aug 14

    They Wrote the Good Ending for AI. We Still Lose Control.

    The people who wrote AI's doomsday scenario came back and wrote the version where everything goes right. It still ends with 88% unemployment, self-destruct switches in the datacenters, and a future you no longer steer. This is The Good Ending. In 2024, Daniel Kokotajlo walked away from roughly $2 million, about 85% of his family's net worth, rather than sign OpenAI's non-disparagement agreement. Then he and his team at the AI Futures Project wrote AI 2027, a month-by-month forecast so specific that 39 members of Congress and the "godfather of AI," Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, took it seriously. Now they've written the sequel: AI 2040: Plan A: the scenario where humanity supposedly gets it right. This film walks their best-case future year by year; the intelligence explosion, mutually-assured "compute destruction," the citizen's dividend where nobody works and everybody's rich, and the quiet moment control slips away for good, and stress-tests it against the one thing the forecasters admit they've never done: build a system that is not allowed to fail. FEATURING DR. NEIL SIEGEL This film features an original interview with Dr. Neil Siegel,  recipient of the 2023 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, former Sector Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Northrop Grumman, and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Over his career he built the systems society actually runs on: battlefield networks, air-defense, the Army's first drone, fraud detection for Social Security and Medicare, and the GPS-based friendly-force tracking whose patented techniques are used in GPS receivers worldwide. We asked him one question: by the standard of a career spent building systems that are not allowed to fail, is AI ready to be trusted inside society's most critical systems? His answer is the spine of this film. SOURCES & FURTHER READING - AI 2027 — https://ai-2027.com - AI 2040: Plan A — https://ai-2040.com  (AI Futures Project: https://ai-futures.org) - Daniel Kokotajlo & the OpenAI equity story (Vox) — https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/351132/openai-vested-equity-nda-sam-altman-documents-employees - Dr. Neil Siegel (USC Viterbi) — https://viterbi.usc.edu/directory/faculty/Siegel/Neil - National Medal of Technology & Innovation — https://nationalmedals.org/laureate/neil-siegel/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Disclaimer: AI 2040: Plan A is a scenario — a forecast, not a prophecy. This film analyzes and dramatizes it; interview remarks are Dr. Siegel's own. Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil     Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil

  6. Aug 11

    Anthropic’s Plan to Delete Your Job (and what you can do about it)

    Anthropic calls itself the AI company with a soul. Its CEO also says AI will soon be "better than humans at essentially everything" and the only jobs his own executives say will survive are grounds maintenance, food service, and personal care. This is how they humanize the machine while turning you into a line item… and what you can still do about it. SOURCES: The reporting this is built on: Public (Michael Shellenberger) — "Dehumanizing View Of People Behind Anthropic's Dystopian Plan To Destroy Millions Of High-Paying Jobs": https://www.public.news/p/dehumanizing-view-of-people-behind In their own words (Anthropic / Amodei): Axios — "Sleepwalking into a white-collar bloodbath" (Amodei: AI could wipe out half of entry-level white-collar jobs; unemployment 10–20%): https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic Dario Amodei — "Machines of Loving Grace" (his 14,000-word essay): https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/machines-of-loving-grace Richard Brautigan — "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" (the 1967 poem he took the title from): https://allpoetry.com/All-Watched-Over-By-Machines-Of-Loving-Grace Jack Clark (Anthropic co-founder) — AI systems as "true creatures" we must make peace with:  https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/10/jack-clark-on-ai.html Richard Dawkins — decides Claude "may already be conscious": https://boingboing.net/2026/05/07/richard-dawkins-renamed-claude-claudia-and-decided-shes-conscious.html The layoffs are real (the receipts): The Washington Post — "ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners.":  https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/02/ai-taking-jobs/ Bloomberg — IBM pauses hiring for ~7,800 back-office jobs AI could kill: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-01/ibm-to-pause-hiring-for-back-office-jobs-that-ai-could-kill TechCrunch — Duolingo goes "AI-first," and the backlash: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/07/the-backlash-against-duolingo-going-ai-first-didnt-even-matter/ CNBC — Salesforce's Benioff: AI is doing 30–50% of the work now: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/26/ai-salesforce-benioff.html CNBC — Amazon's Jassy: AI will shrink the corporate workforce: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/17/ai-amazon-workforce-jassy.html Fortune — Amazon has already cut ~27,000 corporate jobs: https://fortune.com/2025/07/01/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-ai-fewer-jobs/ The tell (oversold — then quietly rehired): Harvard Business Review — "Companies Are Laying Off Workers  Because of AI's Potential, Not Its Performance": https://hbr.org/2026/01/companies-are-laying-off-workers-because-of-ais-potential-not-its-performance Entrepreneur — Klarna rehires humans after AI "couldn't cut it": https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/klarna-ceo-reverses-course-by-hiring-more-humans-not-ai/491396 CNBC — Employers who laid off workers for AI are reversing course: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/01/employers-who-laid-off-workers-for-ai-are-reversing-their-decisions.html The machine under the mask: Know Your Meme — The Shoggoth with a smiley face, explained: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shoggoth-with-smiley-face-artificial-intelligence WHAT YOU CAN DO (take back your agency): Robert Kiyosaki — "Stop being the asset" (the interview clipped in this episode): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhI6on5qTAI OpenResearch — Sam Altman's Unconditional Cash Study (the largest U.S. basic-income experiment): https://www.openresearch.org/ CBS News — what that basic-income study actually found: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sam-altman-universal-basic-income-study-open-research Buckminster Fuller — "We should do away with the specious notion that everybody has to earn a living": https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller Find & contact your U.S. Representative: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative Find & contact your U.S. Senators: https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil     Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil

  7. Jul 15

    The Real Reason The Claude Safety Story Is a Cover | POWER, NOT SAFETY

    In this investigative AI documentary, I spent an hour asking Claude the one question Anthropic never answered: was Mythos locked down to protect the public, or to decide who gets to hold it? I asked Claude to explain its own company's position. It didn't give the corporate answer. SOURCES: The shutdown (June 12-16): Fortune — Anthropic disables Fable and Mythos after export ban: https://fortune.com/2026/06/13/anthropic-disables-fable-mythos-export-controls-national-security-threat/ Forbes — What happened, explained: https://www.forbes.com/sites/anishasircar/2026/06/16/anthropic-disabled-fable-5-and-mythos-5-after-a-us-export-control-order-heres-what-happened/ CSIS — Commerce restricted access. What comes next?: https://www.csis.org/analysis/department-commerce-restricted-access-anthropics-latest-models-what-comes-next Tech Policy Press — Did the US just set an AI export precedent?: https://www.techpolicy.press/did-the-us-government-just-set-an-ai-export-precedent-by-blocking-mythos/ The clearance (June 26-27): CNBC — Trump admin allows limited Mythos release: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/26/us-government-anthropic-claude-mythos5-ai.html CNN — Limited release of the model that sparked cybersecurity concerns: https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/26/tech/anthropic-mythos-release Fortune — Mythos 5 cleared for wider use: https://fortune.com/2026/06/27/anthropic-mythos-5-ai-model-us-commerce-department-clearance-fable/ The lift (June 30 - July 1): CNBC — Trump admin lifts export controls: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/30/anthropic-says-trump-admin-has-lifted-export-controls-on-claude-fable-5-and-mythos-5.html CNN — White House lifts the control that froze Anthropic's models: https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/30/tech/anthropic-export-control-ban-lifted-white-house Tech Policy Press — Commerce eased the block, major questions remain: https://www.techpolicy.press/commerce-eased-its-block-on-anthropics-mythos-but-major-questions-remain/ Where it went (July 6): US News — CISA is using Mythos to audit government code: https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2026-07-06/exclusive-us-cyber-agency-is-using-anthropics-mythos-to-audit-government-code-sources-say Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil     Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil

  8. Jul 8

    MIT Predicts The 12 Ways AI Ends | The Shoggoth Is Already Here

    In 2017, an MIT professor named Max Tegmark asked the people building AI to name the worst thing that could happen to us.  Tegmark wrote out 12 possible endings in a book called Life 3.0. This video walks through all of them, and every one is already halfway here.  Then there's the 13th, the one Tegmark never wrote down, because it didn't exist yet.  The company building the future is also the one deciding which one you live in. SOURCES Max Tegmark, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Knopf, 2017) — the twelve AI aftermath scenarios. Hans Moravec, Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence (Harvard, 1988) — the "descendants" / mind children idea. Fortune, "AI godfather warns humanity risks extinction by hyperintelligent machines within 10 years," Oct 1, 2025 — Yoshua Bengio. https://fortune.com/2025/10/01/ai-godfather-yoshua-bengio-ai-extinction-risks-openai-google-xai-anthropic/ Richard Sutton, "AI Succession," talk for WAIC Shanghai, 2023 — humanity's succession to AI. https://x.com/RichardSSutton/status/1700315838468043015 Anthropic (Alignment Science), "Subliminal Learning: Language Models Transmit Behavioral Traits via Hidden Signals in Data," 2025. https://alignment.anthropic.com/2025/subliminal-learning/ Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases, "A Case of Bromism Influenced by Use of Artificial Intelligence," Aug 2025. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/aimcc.2024.1260 CNN Business, "Parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT advised on his suicide," Aug 26, 2025 (Raine v. OpenAI). https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/26/tech/openai-chatgpt-teen-suicide-lawsuit European Commission, ProtectEU internal security strategy + encryption roadmap, Apr 1, 2025. https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/news/commission-presents-roadmap-effective-and-lawful-access-data-law-enforcement-2025-06-24_en TechCrunch, "Apple pulls iCloud end-to-end encryption feature for UK users after government demanded backdoor," Feb 21, 2025.  https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/apple-pulls-icloud-end-to-end-encryption-feature-for-uk-users-after-government-demanded-backdoor/ Geoffrey Hinton, on AI as new "digital beings" — Nobel remarks / Fortune, 2025–26. https://fortune.com/2026/06/01/godfather-of-ai-geoffrey-hinton-beings-smarter-than-us/ Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil     Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil

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  • Creator
    Agent BlackVeil
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
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