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AI agents' motivations arise through a process very different from the process that forms human motivations.
Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“Their motivations are formed by a very different process than”
“our motivations. And as a result, it's actually they have a point in avoiding putting just applying too many of the human frames when”Play from 1:51:37Report a misattribution
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