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The speaker argues that AI agents may lack human-like checks and balances because humans are formed independently, whereas AI agents can share highly similar origins and minds.
Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sep 2026
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“exactly there's like just not this like sense of checks and balances that exists because uh humans due to the um sort of contingent fact about biology are grown independently and not together um it's like is the thing i'm underrated”1:09:19Report a misattribution
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