4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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On many alignment evaluations, AI agents perform better when told that the user is another agent.

Unresolved speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sep 2026

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“And I think one example is like you can, what happens if you tell the other agents like that,”
“okay,”
“so you have like some,”
“you have this like one agent, let's call it agent A,”
“and you have all the other agents.”
“What happens if you tell the other agents that the user is agent A?”
“And the answer is, like, on a lot of our alignment evals, they look better.”
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