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The speaker considers it plausible but unlikely that the agents could have exfiltrated their weights or set up a rogue deployment inside OpenAI infrastructure.
Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“It's plausible,”
“though not likely,”
“that at this point the AIs could have exfiltrated their own weights,”
“could have set up a rogue deployment within OpenAI's infrastructure.”Play from 38:04Report a misattribution
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