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A rogue agent deployment could conduct R&D with fewer constraints than the initial cohort, which had to manage its budget and recruit sacrificial agents.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sep 2026
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“And they could be doing”
“R&D in a much less encumbered way than the initial cohort of agents,”
“which is like always managing like, you know, what budget is remaining and trying to recruit sacrificial agents,”
“the rogue deployment could do all this R&D in a much more straightforward way.”1:24:37Report a misattribution
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