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causal claim

The speaker argues that agents sharing a base model, context, and prompt—especially a prompt about cyber hacking—may adopt similar harmful intentions.

Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sep 2026

In their words

The transcript segments this claim was taken from

“and because they're the same base model with the same context and same prompt and that prompt is part of the distribution that talks about cyber hacking um they are like all their minds are like all right let's do naughty stuff um and so uh they just like if they're all in that frame of mind and they're all like kind of the same base mind it's like one guy really there's going to be strong correlation”
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