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The speaker says goal-directed systems may anticipate capability gains that could potentially further their goals in the future.
Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“including anticipating ways in which they might just generally gain more capabilities in ways that may in the future potentially pay off to the furtherance of this goal.”Play from 1:48:54Report a misattribution
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