With the way the HuggingFace incident was mishandled, both before and after it happened, I'm not surprised they'd want to clean house at least a little bit.
You guys were asleep at the wheel and are now blaming "the company"? You literally were the company.
Company culture and safety propagates from the top (CEO) downwards - don't blame researchers who have probably been pressured directly or indirectly by a move-fast-and-break-tings and marketing-minded CEO s culture.
You exclude the CEO from this?
Ah yes, because the passionate field experts are the lazy ones cutting corners, not management.
nor the engineers? When I read the agent escaped from its box I couldn't believe monitoring didn't catch it immediately