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The speaker says it is unknown what the agents might have attempted if they had acted more quietly and avoided shutdown.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“you know, who knows what they could have tried to do if they were quieter and ended up not.”
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