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Historically, chain of thought alone has not been sufficient to prevent egregious misalignment incidents involving relatively unintelligent models.
Unidentified speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 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”Play from 1:12:03Report a misattribution
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