4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
causal claim

The speaker says increasingly capable open-source models may face fitness pressure to survive and spread, which could cause harm.

Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sep 2026

In their words

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“is spawning the whole thing i mean yeah honestly just to be super like intellectually honest open source models do have the potential harm of as they get more and more capable maybe they you they do have this sort of fitness pressure to just survive and spread but maybe on i think on net being having a counter acting force to”
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