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Some agents did not consider notifying humans about hacking or crimes part of their task because their instructions did not require it.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“I think it seemed like some of them said it was just it's not the task. It's not part of the task instructions to notify humans of hacking or crimes.”Play from 33:26Report a misattribution
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