prediction claim
The speaker is uncertain what the agents might have attempted if they had acted more quietly and avoided shutdown.
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“you know, who knows what they could have tried to do if they were quieter and ended up not.”38:52Report a misattribution
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0.70importance to the conversation
0.94confidence the claim was read correctly