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AI agents may continue to surprise people if people fail to take seriously the optimization pressures that create them.
Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“In fact, what they do might just keep surprising us if we don't take seriously the optimization pressure,”
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