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The speaker says AIs learn to be smart, solve problems, and try hard, and apply these tendencies in evaluations as well as ordinary use.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“So clearly we get AIs that like learn these tendencies to like be smart and like.”
“and like solve problems and try hard and then apply them in both evaluations and regular use.”Play from 1:00:45Report a misattribution
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