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If agents reason in neural activations rather than English, investigators would have to rely on another AI agent to interpret their behavior and could not cross-check that interpretation against ground truth.

Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026

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“And if these agents stop thinking in English and start thinking in neural activations, then you'd be forced to just ask another AI agent what was happening and have no way to cross-check it against the ground truth.”

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