The BasePodcast80,000 Hours166 min
In 2023 Ajeya Cotra already knew what was coming (classic episode)
According to the episode description, this rerelease features Ajeya Cotra on how AI models might accidentally be trained to cheat and scheme, and notes Cotra was one of three independent investigators into the Hugging Face attacks.
The record
- Questions
- Can AI systems act beyond what people intended or allowed?
- People
- Ajeya Cotra (Speaks)
- What we read
- We have read only the description the publisher gives. No quotations until someone reads the source itself.
- Found by
- The Radar, run of October 12, 2026, via
pod-80-000-hours-podcast(tier 1: the source’s own channel or an official record) - Cite this
- 80,000 Hours, “In 2023 Ajeya Cotra already knew what was coming (classic episode)”, October 8, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/80000-hours-2026-10-08-ajeya-cotra-classic-rerelease
Our notesClassic episode; the title dates the original interview to 2023. The Hugging Face investigator role is the description's claim and should be checked against the investigation's own report.