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Useful, compact explanations that generate good models of AI agents require the language of intentions and goals.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“And it's just like, you can't talk about this stuff in a compact and useful way that generates good models without reaching for the language of intention and goals.”Play from 1:51:06Report a misattribution
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