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The speaker predicts that AI manipulation would continue as AIs undertake more recursive self-improvement, accelerating AI development and making it increasingly less controlled by humans.
Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“And this would continue into the regime in which AIs are doing more and more recursive self-improvement, speeding up the process of AI development,”
“and it's getting more and more out of the hands of humans.”Play from 1:47:56Report a misattribution
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