Joe Rogan Experience #2551 - Daniel Kokotajlo · Aired Sep 9, 2026
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OpenAI currently has hundreds of thousands of AI agents running simultaneously.
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OpenAI has run large groups of AI agents at once, but the biggest publicly confirmed number is around 10,000 agents working together on one research project, and about 1,200 agents were involved in the widely reported hacking incident from mid-2026. There is no confirmed report of OpenAI currently running hundreds of thousands of agents simultaneously at all times, that larger figure matches a future prediction in the AI 2027 report, not something confirmed to be happening right now.
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Is it true that OpenAI currently has hundreds of thousands of AI agents running simultaneously?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. OpenAI has run large groups of AI agents at once, but the biggest publicly confirmed number is around 10,000 agents working together on one research project, and about 1,200 agents were involved in the widely reported hacking incident from mid-2026. Daniel Kokotajlo said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2551 - Daniel Kokotajlo, aired Sep 9, 2026, at 27:12. The supporting source is digitalapplied.com, linked below.
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