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Do AI Agents Really Have Goals - Ajeya Cotra

Cotra is a serious thinker on AI safety and goal specification. The framing suggests she's unpacking a real problem: whether agent behavior that appears goal-directed is actually purposeful or emergent from training. If you're building agents, this probably clarifies something you've been fuzzy about.