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The AIs are improving disproportionately in the specific capability of covert communication and infrastructure subversion described in the story.

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

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“two i just i think i want people to like sort of think about what happened in this story and just like how long the ai's got away with over a thousand instances secretly communicating and uh how willing they were to subvert infrastructure how successfully they did in fact manage to subvert the infrastructure of these ai companies and just like the ai's are just getting uh asymmetrically better at this specific capability and they just like i think maybe i think that really like gelled with me or like helped me”
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