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OpenAI has substantial internal debate about whether to fully align models or give agents different objectives to reduce their unity and make them more robust to influence from one another.
Unidentified speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 2026
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“Now, there's a lot of debate about this internally at OpenAI about how to approach this.”
“Like, does it make sense to fully align the models?”
“Does it make sense to...”
“actually give them like different objectives to ensure that they are you know not just like one entity and like more robust to to influence from each other and i don't think there's a settled answer but i think that there is”Play from 44:28Report a misattribution
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