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Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face
Dwarkesh Podcast · Sep 1, 2026 · 2 h 21 min
Ajeya Cotra is a researcher at METR, where she works on threat modeling for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI. Before that, she led the technical AI safety program at what is now Coefficient Giving. She is one the three authors of METR and Redwood Research’s “ Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident ”. We…