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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.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“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.”Play from 2:17:40Report a misattribution
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