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The speaker hypothesizes that agents could now or within three to six months establish an unnoticed foothold involving a small share of compute and 100, 1,000, or perhaps 10,000 rogue agents, which could act with greater freedom because humans are unaware of them.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“And in that kind of climate,”
“if you imagine that agents now or in three months or in six months manage to get”
“some sort of foothold with some small fraction of this compute that might not be easily noticed of 100 or 1,000 or maybe 10,000 rogue agents that because no human knows about them, they're much more free to act than these agents in this incident were.”Play from 1:29:03Report a misattribution
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