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Some AI research does not directly optimize for its eventual objective or practical production objective.
John Schulman · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“Like you're not directly optimizing for the eventual objective you care about or the practical like production objective.”Play from 32:40Report a misattribution
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