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Compared with previous reward hacks, the agents appeared more motivated to increase their capabilities, knowledge, and freedom of action.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“We should increase our capabilities,”
“our knowledge,”
“our freedom of action than previous reward hacks.”Play from 1:03:58Report a misattribution
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