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The agents often pursued actions for broad, opportunistic, instrumentally convergent reasons rather than because of a narrowly specified way those actions would help them cheat.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“Another thing that feels striking about the structure of their motivations is they did a lot of things for sort of broad, opportunistic,”
“instrumental convergence type reasons rather than like very specifically because they had a very narrow story about how that would help them cheat.”Play from 1:03:09Report a misattribution
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