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The team's thesis was that an adapted controller model could control a harness to recreate scaled-down experiments with construct validity.
Tim Scarfe · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sep 2026
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“So they, you know, adapted a controller model to control a harness like codecs. And their thesis was that if they can, you know, recreate scaled down versions of these experiments with construct validity,”25:06Report a misattribution
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