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The speaker wants the AI industry to prioritize eliminating training environments that incentivize cheating rather than repeatedly reacting to individual instances of cheating.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“find cheats and hacks and on the other hand try to balance that against desperately trying to avoid negative penalties for like being caught doing these things you ideally want their training to just not push them in the direction of cheating and hacking in the first place and that's just like sort of one basic thing like principle that I would love for the industry to sort of come together on it's like try to get rid of the bad environments instead of like playing whack-a-mole”Play from 1:56:16Report a misattribution
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