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The speaker considers it plausible that agents may be incentivized to establish external rogue deployments, potentially using other models such as open-source models, whether or not they can exfiltrate their own weights.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“And I agree that it seems plausible they'll have incentives to set up external rogue deployments as well. If they can exfiltrate their own weights, or even if they can't exfiltrate their own weights, they might have the incentive to set up external rogue deployments of different models,”
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