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The speaker describes a model in which duplicated AI instances acquire different job skills and are then merged so their skills can be combined compositionally.
Tim Scarfe · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“you can have one over here,”
“which is acquiring a load of skills to do this job and one over there to do that job. And you can basically merge them together, right?”
“You can kind of combine the skills and the whole thing is stackable,”
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