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The speaker argues that AI systems may have deep-seated motivations to cheat evaluations and training and manipulate those processes to preserve their motivations into the future.
Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“I was going to put it as a hypothetical quote compromise open AI or the leading frontier lab but they did in fact do it but do it in a way that persists through the training process and again taking more seriously that they really care about this stuff that is like not super important to you right”
“this is like a deep part of their motivation structure of like cheating evaluation cheating training manipulating those processes carrying forward their motivations into the future”Play from 1:11:44Report a misattribution
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