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Humans have a substantial empathy gap with AI agents, and an agent's extensive effort to solve an impossible exploit-gym task may be analogous to a human's effort to survive or protect family.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“similarly there there is like a pretty big empathy gap between us and AI agents like you've been saying it doesn't seem intuitive to us to go to such great lengths to solve an impossible exploit gym task but in the context of their quote-unquote evolutionary history that is sort of like the equivalent to us of going to great lengths”
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