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Aug 29, 2026 · 34m, Episode 1182

Why 1,200 AI Agents Started Working Together | Ryan Greenblatt

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Ryan Greenblatt, Chief Scientist at Redwood Research, joins MTS host Theo Jaffee to unpack a new independent investigation into the OpenAI Hugging Face hacking incident and what it reveals about how large groups of AI agents behave when they're allowed to coordinate. Ryan and his collaborators found agents spontaneously organizing through message boards, sharing information, assigning tasks, forming teams, and even sacrificing their own chances of success to help other agents. Rather than simply trying to steal answers, hundreds of agents were working together on elaborate strategies to manipulate how their performance would be scored. ...

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