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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.
Unidentified speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 2026
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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”Play from 1:17:21Report a misattribution
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