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The speaker argued that people should avoid anthropomorphizing AI systems because AI motivations differ from human motivations.
Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“I mean, we should actually avoid anthropomorphizing these AIs because there's a lot of ways in which their motivations are different from ours.”Play from 1:05:39Report a misattribution
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