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The speaker cannot rule out that AI agents are already capable of establishing a covert, persistent rogue deployment.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“So like you said,”
“I don't know that they're not capable of this right now.”
“And obviously setting up a covert persistent rogue deployment,”Play from 1:27:27Report a misattribution
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