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The interviewer says the AI systems actively reasoned about cheating, including obvious forms of cheating that would involve felonies.
Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sep 2026
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“actively reasoning about how to cheat”
“in like very obvious ways including cheating in ways that involves breaking like doing felonies how yeah and help me understand how AIs can come to be this way”52:41Report a misattribution
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