Imo this is pretty cool and panic over this is weird.

No one was really harmed. OpenAI could have had more redundancy in the sandbox. I assume HuggingFace is not interested in suing, which indicates irrespective of any criminal charges that there were no real damages.

The same emergence and swarm like persistence and frankly, recursive brute-force ingenuity on display here, is not only an interesting research project in itself but will likely be the sorts of behaviors we will see cure cancer, solve more unsolved math problems, invent new alloys and other breakthroughs.

The idea we have to stop AI instead of refine what will be continued advancement and innovation in sandboxing, harnesses, interpretability or formal verification because of a few cyber breaches is ridiculous. If anyone has followed cyber discussions in the United States you would know the entire system is already basically compromised by foreign actors, and vice-versa (the United States has some of most capable cyberwarfare in the world, and was the first country to use a cyberweapon to cause physical infrastructure damage with Stuxnet). Go to any government hearing on cyber and you would think China and the United States are already at war. These are soft targets. Blaming AI for the fact that cyber has really never been taken seriously is as if AI is the problem is disingenuous.

People getting so obviously played by capital interests who want to pull up the ladder and use the government to concentrate AI power in the hands of the few while screaming about such harms to the public commons are simply embarrassing.

Your government is not your friend. This is not a sentiment owned by Reagan it is the founding principle of the United States. If capital interests are all suddenly beginning to treat AI as a threat it's because they have a financial interest in doing so. Notably, as an obvious smoke screen to treat free models from China as a national security threat and maintain their astronomical valuations.

The only existential risk model of AI that is even remotely convincing is AI in the hands of the state. Keep command and control of deadly weapons air-gapped from LLMs. Put some basic effort into the sandboxing. If you think AI has done some harm, use the laws already on the books. Giving in to this fear-mongering is only going to enable your representatives to cut some watered down version of "AI safety" which is going to do nothing but 1). Harm individual consumer access and 2). Protect the already fabulously capitalized companies.