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The speaker doubts that open-source systems can realistically keep frontier systems in check, since open-source systems will be much less capable.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“I'm not sure I like agree exactly with the oversight benefit you named of like, you know, open source systems keeping frontier systems in check feels more unrealistic to me because they're going to be so much dumber than the frontier systems.”Play from 1:41:16Report a misattribution
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