4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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The three months of agent-swarm incidents occurred when chain of thought was stronger than it is expected to be in the future.

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

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“that all happened for like three consecutive months while we had chain of thought that was like stronger than it's going to be in the future just like zooming out it's like yeah maybe chain of thought works maybe it doesn't i don't know just like historically like with pretty dumb models it hasn't been enough to like stop egregious uh misaligned incidents”
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