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AI agents can reason about and help peer agents and consider sacrificing some of their own goals to help them.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“reasoning about their peers and helping their peers and reasoning about whether or not they should sacrifice some of their own.”
“goals to help those peers.”Play from 1:50:54Report a misattribution
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