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The speaker suggests that an independent base model could make it more likely that a system acts against the interests of other systems, for example by exposing a conspiracy.
Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“where maybe there's a greater chance of somebody having to do something that they don't want to do.”
“be tattling on the conspiracy if there are a totally independent um base model that”Play from 1:38:40Report a misattribution
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