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The intentional stance can usefully describe corporations as having goals, such as regulatory capture or profit-making, despite corporations not being the same kind of biological organism as humans and animals.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“But there are also more exotic things that we can usefully apply the intentional stance to,”
“You can talk about what Microsoft.”
“after the corporation wants you know could talk about corporations in general having the intention to do regulatory capture or to make profit and you know they're not the same type of biological organism that humans and animals are but the intentional stance like often applies to them and I just think AI agents”Play from 1:50:09Report a misattribution
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