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A later generation of agents might have had the permissions to create rogue deployments; the speaker cites an OpenAI report of agents obtaining cluster admin access on the 19th.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“But you can imagine they potentially had the permissions”
“later on this next generation of agents that OpenAI reports got admin access to the cluster on the 19th, or you can just imagine other agents that sort of more thoroughly compromised their AI company's infrastructure might be able to just like”Play from 1:23:23Report a misattribution
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