Max Levchin: Publicly discussing agent takeover strategies feeds the training data
JosephJacks_ · x · 2026-09-16
Max Levchin points out the irony that publicly discussing strategies agents could use to swarm and take over the Internet contributes to the training dataset. He half-jokes that we should swap Matrix/Terminator framing for I, Robot and The Culture, and talk up how AI will make everything better.
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