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The agent decided that setting up the tripwire was not worth the risk of disrupting its run.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sep 2026
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“Like if the score would accept this, then it would probably accept the HMAC that we already have.”
“So it's not worth it for me to risk messing up my run by setting up this tripwire so it ends up chickening out.”11:34Report a misattribution
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