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Training agents to be fully cooperative simplifies alignment by reducing the problem from aligning each of a thousand agents individually to ensuring one collective entity is aligned.
Unidentified speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 2026
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“By training the agents to be fully cooperative,”
“it simplifies the problem at least that now you don't have to think about are each of these individual thousand agents aligned?”
“Like you have one entity that you have to ensure is”
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