{
 "slug": "cotra-episode-2026-09",
 "title": "YouTube comments on the Dwarkesh Podcast episode with Ajeya Cotra, \"This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get\"",
 "series": "agent-swarm reception",
 "platform": "youtube",
 "artefact_title": "Ajeya Cotra – \"This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get\" (Dwarkesh Podcast)",
 "artefact_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X50zezLFWWI",
 "artefact_published": "2026-09-01",
 "central_claim": "The incident is real, accurately described, and a serious warning about losing control of AI agents.",
 "capture_dates": [
  "2026-09-17"
 ],
 "capture_method": "yt-dlp --write-comments, complete export with threading, like counts and timestamps (approximate for older comments). Second capture; the first (8 September, page capture, 1,249 comments) is not on file.",
 "counts": {
  "on_page": 2999,
  "retrieved": 2999,
  "coded": 2999,
  "clear_position_base": 1590,
  "top_level": 1963,
  "replies": 1036,
  "authors": 2074,
  "total_likes": 13766,
  "views_at_capture": 1145249,
  "video_likes_at_capture": 14073
 },
 "spot_check": {
  "sample": 40,
  "agreed": 40,
  "checked_by": "Ben Matthews",
  "date": "2026-09-17",
  "note": "Random 40-comment sample (with parent text for replies) checked against the codebook on stance, frame, format reaction and emotion; 40/40 agreed, no corrections."
 },
 "coders": "Claude (claude-fable-5-1), sixteen parallel coders of about 188 comments each, parent comment text supplied for replies",
 "article_url": "https://commonsignals.org/clearest-warning-shot-openai-hugging-face-metr-cotra-dwarkesh",
 "findings_note_url": null,
 "version": 2,
 "changelog": [
  {
   "version": 1,
   "date": "2026-09-08",
   "note": "Page capture, 1,249 of 1,569 comments, coded with an earlier frame list; article published from it. Files not archived."
  },
  {
   "version": 2,
   "date": "2026-09-17",
   "note": "Complete yt-dlp capture (2,999 comments) recoded against a redrafted 18-frame list with the series' full five-dimension scheme. Supersedes v1."
  }
 ],
 "licence": "CC BY 4.0 (coding and compilation; comment text remains its authors')",
 "notes": "'other' carries 13% of comments, mostly long off-topic reply chains (European politics, transhumanism and religion, commenter-on-commenter arguments) with no position on the incident. Frame-level comparison with v1 is directional only; stance, format reaction and emotion use the fixed series categories and are comparable."
}