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The speaker says selection and iteration pressure cannot be avoided, but recommends trying hard not to worsen it by adding direct training pressure.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“So there's there's selection and iteration pressure in any case, but you might as well try pretty hard.”
“not to make it much worse by like making it also direct training pressure because there's so many more bits of selection there and and similarly like another aspect of keeping the monitoring methods separate from the training methods is when you detect a problem with your monitoring method be careful to fix that in a way that doesn't”
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