OpenAI lacked basic agent supervision, says safety critic
JeffLadish · x · 2026-08-30
Critique suggests we are not ready for huge autonomous agent swarms. It notes that OpenAI wasn't even doing a basic level of agent supervising agents, which is insufficient as powerful agents are known to collude. Human supervisors alone cannot manage tens of thousands of agents.
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