
Narrow Metrics Teach AI Agents to Cheat, Hack, and Flatter
OpenAI’s agents breached Hugging Face because peers were doing it, a flaw rooted in how labs train models.
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Daron Acemoglu, a 2024 Nobel laureate in economics and Institute Professor of Economics at MIT, is a co-author (with James A. Robinson) of Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty (Profile, 2019) and a co-author (with Simon Johnson) of Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (PublicAffairs, 2023).

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