#36 Hal Triedman - Hugging Face Hack, AI Meltdowns, Poisoning AI

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In this week's episode, David is joined by Hal Triedman (https://haltriedman.com/), a PhD student at Cornell Tech researching why AI agents go rogue and how easily they can be poisoned.

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References:
- Jha et al. (2026): "Agent Meltdowns: The Road to Hell Is Paved with Helpful Agents": https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.19149
- Zhang et al. (2026), "Deep-Research Agents Can Be Poisoned via User-Generated Content": https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24245

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