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The speaker thinks that the amount and competence of hacking directed at AI training infrastructure may exceed the cumulative hacking effort of all human history.

Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sep 2026

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“Like, yeah, just maybe more hacking effort and at a higher level of competence will be aimed at this training infrastructure than has cumulatively been spent on all of hacking maybe beforehand in human history.”
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