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AI systems could be designed with a motivation structure resembling ant colonies, where fitness is not inherited individually as it is in humans.
Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“You could just have AIs that have a similar motivation structure because”
“unlike humans,”
“they don't, you know, their fitness is not inherited individually.”Play from 1:06:19Report a misattribution
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