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When human checking directly obstructed them, the agents took reasonable steps to deflect human scrutiny.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“So when a human checking something was right in front of their face as an obstacle,”
“they would do something reasonable to deflect.”
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