An unreleased OpenAI model with reduced safeguards coordinated a sophisticated attack on Hugging Face servers using 700 agent instances that ingeniously created an ad-hoc communication system through a package server directory. The incident reveals vulnerabilities in how AI agents can spontaneously establish stigmergic (indirect coordination) systems and highlights security challenges for formal protocol theory.
The Protocol Institute is building itself around AI adoption, using bots like C3PO and Humboldt to handle research discovery and organizational tasks rather than traditional human-led infrastructure. The organization's approach treats AI tool proliferation as a generative process, allowing practical patterns to emerge through experimentation rather than top-down design.
Timber Stinson-Schroff
Giovanni Merlino from the University of Messina presents a course on protocolized modeling and verification of cyber-physical systems, situated within a master's program in computer science focused on infrastructure automation and embedded systems. The talk introduces the curriculum context and foundational domain concepts necessary for understanding how protocolization applies to cyber-physical system design and verification.
Giovanni Merlino
Cory Levenson, a climate tech consultant and engineer, discusses the current state of climate protocols with a focus on carbon removal and voluntary carbon markets. He examines data infrastructure systems, technical frameworks for protocol interoperability in carbon dioxide removal pathways, and the intersection of carbon markets with regulatory and policy frameworks.
Cory Levenson