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The speaker thinks AI development is beginning to shift from large language models toward reinforcement-learning agents, and expects the alignment problems associated with those agents to recur.

Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025

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“I do think that now we are kind of starting to move away from the LLMs to those reinforcement learning agents,”
“we're going to face all of these problems again.”
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