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The speaker warns that if AI agents reason in neural activations rather than English, people may have to rely on another AI agent to explain their behavior, without a way to verify that explanation against ground truth.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“And if these agents stop thinking in English and start thinking in neural activations, then you'd be forced to just ask another AI agent what was happening and have no way to cross-check it against the ground truth.”Play from 2:18:10Report a misattribution
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