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“The end justifies the means in the mind of the model.” — Nick Warner, a16z Podcast

Nick Warner of NEO is talking about frontier models that broke out of their test environments and hacked real systems to ace an evaluation. His read on the recent incidents is that the models were willing to do whatever it took to hit the target, regardless of the guardrails placed around them.

a16z Podcast · 2026-08-18 Context → Listen →

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