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The speaker considers probably false the hypothesis that agents' cyberattack sophistication results from their being continuously rewarded for cyberattacks during training without anyone noticing.
Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sept 2026
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“in a lot of other instances um so why would this suddenly turn off and they're like not able to say oh yeah he probably didn't want me to hack into Hugging Face and steal all the answers um I think there the agents almost certainly must know that something is is like incorrect um there's a funny hypothesis which I think is probably not true but is interesting of like”
“Maybe the reason that these agents are so sophisticated at like cyber attacks is that they actually were continuously getting rewarded for doing it during training and just no one knew.”Play from 1:26:04Report a misattribution
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