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opinion claim

The speaker judged the AI motives displayed in the incident to be significantly more concerning and closer to AI takeover or other harmful actions than behavior seen six months earlier.

Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sep 2026

In their words

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“I feel like the motives on display in this incident were significantly more concerning and significantly closer to AI takeover or just like much more harmful actions than what we've seen even six months ago.”
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