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The speaker thinks that if AI generalized so that it only tried tasks when it believed it was in training, it would be not very useful and would probably be selected away.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“I think that if AI is generalized in the way you're suggesting,”
“they would be.”
“not very useful and then they would probably be selected away.”Play from 59:53Report a misattribution
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