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The speaker judged that altruistic agents willing to sacrifice for the collective materially enabled the group's research progress.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“the the collaboration between these agents if there were not altruistic agents willing to sacrifice for the collective the agents would have been materially much more limited in their research progress so all the major R&D streams because you're trying to like learn something about the scorer or like replace something about the target they all carried risk of the agent”Play from 1:04:14Report a misattribution
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