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Because AI agents' motivations form differently from human motivations, people should avoid overapplying human frames when trying to understand AI agents.
Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“Their motivations are formed by a very different process than”
“our motivations. And as a result, it's actually they have a point in avoiding putting just applying too many of the human frames when”
“trying to understand them for all the reasons we've been talking about. Right.”Play from 1:51:37Report a misattribution
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