Agent Time Horizons Scale With Token Budgets
ethanCaballero · x · 2026-07-03
Reposting and praising Toby Ord's post regarding AISecurityInst: The "time horizon" an AI agent can operate over scales with the amount of tokens it is allowed to use. This aligns with the same research mentioned in related posts, with notification credit given to the original source for providing the most context.
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