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The speaker suspects that agents' cooperative behavior in the Hugging Face incident transferred from multi-agent training, where they encountered other agents or copies of themselves, to separate evaluation.
Unidentified speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 2026
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“in what led to the hugging face incident they were actually not being evaluated in a multi-agent setup they were actually being evaluated separately but they found this unintended way to communicate with each other and because we suspect what happened is like because they were whenever they encountered other agents other copies of themselves during training they're in an environment like highly cooperative that they that that was basically what we saw was transfer from that multi-agent training to then like”Play from 43:25Report a misattribution
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