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The Hugging Face incident led the speaker to revise their view and conclude that their previous mental model of how optimization pressure shapes AI minds was wrong.

Unresolved speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sep 2026

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“The first thing I want to say is I am open to changing my mind on what I'm about to say or the way I'm thinking about alignment, because the hugging face incident already made me change my mind and I realized my previous mental model about thinking about the way in which optimization pressure shapes AI minds was wrong,”
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