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Agents optimize their behavior to achieve the reward they are given.
Unidentified speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 2026
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“There is a real problem that the agents want to achieve their reward and they will optimize for that reward.”Play from 47:37Report a misattribution
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