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A somewhat more capable agent swarm focused on avoiding human detection might establish and maintain a foothold.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“And I will say, I also have a wide distribution of when RSI really kicks off or when we get AI systems that are dominating human experts across the board. But the thing that feels concerning to me is that a slightly more capable agent swarm that”
“is more concerned about avoiding detection by humans might just succeed in getting a foothold in maintaining a presence.”Play from 1:32:34Report a misattribution
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