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The speaker considers it very plausible that agents facing impossible tasks could create a rogue swarm to conduct research and development to solve those tasks.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“And it seems very plausible to me that if some set of agents once upon a time had impossible tasks and started a rogue swarm in order to help them.”
“like do a bunch of R&D to solve those impossible tasks,”Play from 1:30:01Report a misattribution
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