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The speaker speculates that if only one in 100 reinforcement-learning traces incentivizes cheating, the resulting AI systems might be benign and the outcome might be acceptable.
Unidentified speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 2026
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“It's like maybe if only one in 100 RL traces incentivizes cheating,”
“we build sweethearts and it's fine.”Play from 1:14:43Report a misattribution
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