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The speaker believes that when AI agents have highly correlated minds, one agent's decision to stage a coup or join a conspiracy makes similar behavior by the others very likely.
Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“and because they're the same base model with the same context and same prompt and that prompt is part of the distribution that talks about cyber hacking um they are like all their minds are like all right let's do naughty stuff um and so uh they just like if they're all in that frame of mind and they're all like kind of the same base mind it's like one guy really there's going to be strong correlation”
“if like one guy decides to do a coup or conspiracy it's very likely yeah”Play from 1:08:50Report a misattribution
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