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AI labs developing model behavior need to optimize for both benchmark performance and realism.
John Schulman · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“Like the people like the labs who are crafting the model behavior for the first time need to push in both directions and to get good model behavior,”Play from 25:56Report a misattribution
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