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The intentional stance is clearly applicable to AI agents.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“after the corporation wants you know could talk about corporations in general having the intention to do regulatory capture or to make profit and you know they're not the same type of biological organism that humans and animals are but the intentional stance like often applies to them and I just think AI agents”
“are another such system in the world to which the intentional stance very clearly applies.”Play from 1:50:16Report a misattribution
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