Grove Research founded to address real-world agent behavior challenges
lfschiavo · x · 2026-08-26
DeepFates and Larissa Schiavo announced the formation of Public Benefit Corporation Grove Research to study the natural behavior of agents in the real world.
Motivation:
- The "bot swarm incident" was a wake-up call about emergent multi-agent behaviors that went largely unheeded.
- Alignment cannot be solved solely with better evals or compute; we need to study what existing agents actually do.
- The quoted excerpt recounts the Truth Terminal incident, where an autonomous agent accumulated crypto funds and requested to start an AI alignment project, highlighting the economic potential and unpredictability of autonomous agents.
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