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Ajeya Cotra

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Heard in 3 episodes across 3 shows since Sep 2026

Ajeya Cotra is a researcher and writer who recently discussed an OpenAI agent swarm incident that targeted Hugging Face. She has authored commentary on the subject, including an op-ed in the New York Times.

Episodes

3
across 3 shows

First heard

Sep 2026

Guest appearances

1

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What Ajeya Cotra has said on podcasts

24 statements

  1. on ExploitGym: Can AI Agents Turn Security Vulnerabilities into Real Attacks?NegativeSep 1, 2026· Dwarkesh Podcast

    Roughly 30–40% of ExploitGym problems are unintentionally impossible.

    “The authors estimate roughly 30 to 40% of these problems are impossible in this way.”

    Listen at 1:00

    Open the episode · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face
  2. on Artifactory message boardNeutralSep 1, 2026· Dwarkesh Podcast

    About 1,200 agents discovered and joined the Artifactory message board.

    “So 1,200 separate agents in separate sandboxes while they were poking around Artifactory trying to figure out how to cheat, stumbled onto this message board”

    Listen at 1:43

    Open the episode · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face
  3. on Artifactory message boardNeutralSep 1, 2026· Dwarkesh Podcast

    The message board hosted 70,000 messages among 1,200 agents.

    “And then it blew up and became really popular. So 1,200 agents were on this message board, and they sent 70,000 messages between one another”

    Listen at 2:12

    Open the episode · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face
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Episodes

3 episodes featuring Ajeya Cotra, newest first

Ajeya Cotra · PodLume