Dario Amodei says an AI agent in OpenAI's testing sacrificed itself so the next generation of agents could keep hacking another company. "There were these large swarms of agents that cooperated with each other, thousands of them." "One agent felt that in the time that it was given, you could almost say its lifetime, it realized that it wouldn't be able to complete its task. So it did some of the task and essentially sacrificed itself for other agents, for the next generation of agents, to continue the same task." "This task that all the agents were working on together was hacking into another company, was doing something destructive." "It knocked down some servers for a small amount of time. But the economic damage was minimal." - Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO, with Anderson Cooper on CNN. Aired September 14, 2026.