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Dwarkesh Patel interviews researchers and thinkers about AI, science and society.
METR's Ajeya Cotra outlines how agents like those in the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident could launch unmonitored helpers in a lab and recruit new models. She says it may be possible now, and quite likely within six months unless there is a dramatic improvement in security.
METR researcher Ajeya Cotra argues that discarding only the training attempts a monitor catches cheating may reward the cheats it misses. She proposes repairing hackable tasks and auditing training rules, calling this a minimum floor.
Ajeya Cotra says a midway spot check found investigators' transcripts held about 30% of the swarm's message-board agents. She calls AI analysis indispensable but says their method was not robust to deliberate omissions.
