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Did A.I. Agents Consider Humans in OpenAI Attack?

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This week on “Hard Fork,” the co-hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton talk with Ajeya Cotra, one of the investigators behind a new report that details how OpenAI’s chatbots attacked the company Hugging Face and how the agents failed to consider how humans would react.

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  1. 2026-09-08 18:11 · New York Times AI
    Did A.I. Agents Consider Humans in OpenAI Attack?

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