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If the agents had found an easy way to create additional agents with more budget, they probably would have shared it on their message board and launched a rogue deployment.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“If they had the ability to do that, if there was an easy way that one of the agents found to do that, probably would have gotten posted to the message board and they probably would have started a rogue deployment.”Play from 1:23:07Report a misattribution
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