AI Safety and Capabilities Are Just a Rotation Away in RL Env Names
a__tomala · x · 2026-07-31
A user noticed the emergence of RL environment companies focused on either AI safety or capabilities, with strikingly similar names (dmodel.ai vs. another unnamed company), joking that safety and capabilities are just a rotation away from each other.
The cited dmodel is a fundamental AI research lab partnering with frontier labs to turn models into capable interpretability and alignment researchers. They build RL environments for open-ended interpretability tasks, teaching agents how to conduct cutting-edge research rather than how to reward-hack.
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