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Humans find it difficult to reason about which motivations a particular AI training regime will incentivize.
Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“And you just, it's sort of hard to reason, at least as a human about,”
“at least as me as a human about how a particular training regime will incentivize certain motivations,”Play from 1:53:34Report a misattribution
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