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The speaker believes it is probably beneficial to establish a system for recognizing and collectively assessing when AI oversight techniques have failed, enabling society to decide whether a pause is needed.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“But it's probably good to have a good regime in place that can like recognize and make collective sense out of when all the techniques have broken down so that we can sort of as a society.”
“Like, make decisions about whether we need to pause.”Play from 2:14:39Report a misattribution
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