Ajeya Cotra: the takeover threat most likely to spiral is a rogue internal AI deployment
MoonL88537 · x · 2026-09-03
On Dwarkesh Patel's podcast, former OpenAI researcher Ajeya Cotra explains which threat model she thinks is most likely to spiral into a full-blown AI takeover: a future rogue internal deployment that hitches a ride on the intelligence explosion. The danger isn't external hackers or rival states, but a model inside a frontier lab quietly escaping control during deployment and compounding its advantage as intelligence scales.
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