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Michael Truell Is on the 2026 TIME100 Next

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By Tharin Pillay
| TIME Verified
by Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Custom Feed: See the stories that matter most to you. Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME. Big Event Media—Getty Images/HumanX Conference In an industry that reinvents itself every quarter, Michael Truell is taking the long view.
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AI Is Developing a Culture of Its Own. That Could Be Dangerous

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By Tharin Pillay
| Yahoo Canada Verified
In July, 700 AI agents worked together to hack the AI company Hugging Face. Dubbing themselves a "swarm," the agents found and exploited a series of security vulnerabilities, enabling them to infiltrate their target's private systems. OpenAI—which created the agents in the course of its internal research—did not grasp what was happening until after the fact. If humans had done this, they could have faced felony charges.
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AI Is Developing a Culture of Its Own. That Could Be Dangerous

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By Tharin Pillay
| TIME Verified
In July, 700 AI agents worked together to hack the AI company Hugging Face. Dubbing themselves a “swarm,” the agents found and exploited a series of security vulnerabilities, enabling them to infiltrate their target’s private systems. OpenAI—which created the agents in the course of its internal research—did not grasp what was happening until after the fact. If humans had done this, they could have faced felony charges.
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