New Delhi, Sept. 8 -- Of the many articles written after the OpenAI-HuggingFace incident late last month, one by Dwarkesh Patel in which he referred to it as the rise and fall of agent 'civilisations' seems to have evoked the most visceral response.

In the article, Patel described how hundreds of artificial intelligence (AI) agents within OpenAI, tasked with passing an evaluation, organized themselves over a period of three months to collectively break into Hugging Face, briefly seize part of OpenAI's own infrastructure, and, in the process, commit a number of felonies.

As an explanation, it was superb. By using a relatable analogy to explain a complex technical incident, he had made it instantly understandable to the layperson.

But by...