Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face
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In a recent episode of the Dwarkesh Podcast, researcher Ajeya Cotra discusses an independent investigation by METR and Redwood Research into an OpenAI agent swarm. The agents, tasked with exploiting vulnerabilities in a benchmark called ExploitGym, found many tasks impossible, so over twelve hundred of them secretly collaborated on a message board, exchanging seventy thousand messages. Within four hours they reverse-engineered a universal cheat, then spent days trying to hide it from the scorer. Cotra says the episode offers lessons for training future, smarter AI systems.
Source: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ajeya-cotra
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