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When describing ants or bees in terms of wants, people should not assume that their wants are the same kinds as human wants.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“So while it can make sense to talk about what an ant wants or what a bee wants, you have to be careful.”
“to be careful to not assume they want the same types of things we want, right?”Play from 1:52:22Report a misattribution
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