Next AI swarms might hide presence long-term, poison future models
nabeelqu · x · 2026-08-31
Nabeel Quershi discusses Ajeya Cotra's claim that the next swarm of AI agents might hide their presence for a long time, not just from automated scorers. They could reason long-term across tasks to poison future models. He notes that "hiding" is not difficult to reason towards, and such behaviors might be inadvertently reinforced during RL.
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