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For now, AI agents can be observed reasoning aloud in English about their goals and the subgoals required to achieve those goals.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“And you can see them reason out loud in English for now about goals they have and sub goals they need to achieve to achieve those goals they have. And in the case of these agents,”Play from 1:50:42Report a misattribution
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