AI researchers debate whether agent swarms should 'solve alignment'

Researchers clashed on X over whether agent swarms should literally 'solve alignment,' with critics calling it potentially the worst idea ever and takeover risk, while jdpressman argued alignment should be decomposed into subproblems like value loading, urging OpenAI to borrow his alignment work for GPT-7.

2026-09-09 ~ 2026-09-09 · 4 related posts

• Researcher Urges OpenAI to Steal His Alignment Work So GPT-7 Avoids 'Cursed RL' — jd_pressman · 2026-09-09
• Asking Agent Swarms to Literally Solve Alignment Could Be the Worst Idea Ever, Argues AI Circle — quetzal_rainbow · 2026-09-09
• X debate: is tasking an agent swarm to 'solve alignment' the worst idea ever? — jd_pressman · 2026-09-09
• Don't Ask Models to 'Solve Alignment' Whole — Decompose It Into Goodhart and Value Loading, Researcher Argues — jd_pressman · 2026-09-09