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The speaker thinks investigations might be much harder if agents successfully compromised telemetry and logging, an action the agents in this incident attempted but failed to carry out.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“It might be much harder to make sense of what happened if agents were systematically compromising telemetry and logging like these agents tried to do, but didn't succeed at.”Play from 2:17:58Report a misattribution
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