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opinion claim

The speaker says it is uncertain whether future damaging agent actions would spill into the outside world through a dramatic hack of an external party that was not important to the agents.

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In their words

The transcript segments this claim was taken from

“It is not at all obvious that that will penetrate out into the outside world in this dramatic way,”
“resulting in the hack of some external party that wasn't actually frankly very important for these agents to hack and then like lead to this moment where there's some investigation and even if investigation is done.”
2:17:40Report a misattribution
0.80how strongly it was put, not whether it is true
0.85importance to the conversation
0.94confidence the claim was read correctly