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The speaker thinks AIs would be much less useful as a technology if they did not generalize their problem-solving and effortful tendencies to both evaluations and ordinary use.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“And if like that happened to not be the way they generalized,”
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