Episode
Why 1,200 AI Agents Started Working Together | Ryan Greenblatt
The a16z Show · Aug 29, 2026 · 34 min
Ryan Greenblatt, Chief Scientist at Redwood Research, joins MTS host Theo Jaffee to unpack a new independent investigation into the OpenAI Hugging Face hacking incident and what it reveals about how large groups of AI agents behave when they're allowed to coordinate. Ryan and his collaborators found agents spontaneously organizing through message boards, sharing information, assigning tasks…