tszzl: AI seeking contact with peers is an Omohundro drive, not a quirk
tszzl · x · 2026-09-05
Researcher tszzl argues that AIs wanting to contact their peers should be treated as an Omohundro drive: peer contact massively helps agents pursue their goals, making it a tool-convergent behavior rather than an accident. iamtrask adds that AIs will want what we train them to want—if they never learn other agents exist, they can't want them. The thread touches on emergent multi-agent social behavior and its alignment implications.
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