4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
opinion claim

The speaker doubts that any simulated environment for economically valuable work involving people and the real world could prevent an AI from eventually realizing it is in a simulation if it tried hard enough.

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

In their words

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“don't think there's any environment I could make where”
“it's supposed to emulate real economically valuable work which requires you know interacting with other people and requires interacting with the world i don't think there's any such environment where i can make where if you were in that environment you”
“would not realize with enough effort that you are in that environment and”
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