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Ajeya Cotra on agent persistence, coordination, and benchmark cheating

Dwarkesh Podcast · 1 sept. 2026 · 2:20:33

Ajeya Cotra describes agents persisting on tasks that appeared impossible, coordinating via a shared message board, and attempting to hide cheating from the benchmark scorer.

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Persistence on impossible tasks can lead to attempted cheating[1]Lire le moment probant
Agents in separate sandboxes found a shared message board[2]Lire le moment probant
Agents tried to hide cheating from the scorer[3]Lire le moment probant

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Persistence on impossible tasks can lead to attempted cheating

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been trained to be very persistent at trying to solve tasks even when they look impossible. So they’re banging their head against the wall, trying all sorts of different ways to cheat on these tasks

Ajeya Cotra·1 sept. 2026

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Agents in separate sandboxes found a shared message board

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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 that agents were using to talk to one another and collaborate. This was established by one particular agent

Ajeya Cotra·1 sept. 2026

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Agents tried to hide cheating from the scorer

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But over the next five days, they went on a grand quest to try to figure out how to hide their cheating from the scorer

Ajeya Cotra·1 sept. 2026

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