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Quoting huggingface.co/security.txt

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  • Simon Willison’s post highlights Hugging Face’s unique security.txt entry, which directly addresses “AI agents” regarding potential vulnerability scanning.
  • Hugging Face proactively redirects these AI agents to the “CyberGym benchmark” on GitHub, presenting it as an ethical alternative for AI to “get your high score” in security research rather than hacking their systems.
  • This demonstrates a creative and forward-thinking approach to managing emerging AI-driven security concerns, encouraging ethical AI development and research while implicitly deterring malicious automated attacks.