Safety Take: Don't Run Large Agent Swarms Until Monitoring Is Trustworthy
AndrewM_Webb · x · 2026-09-16
The author proposes short-term risk reduction for "pacing the frontier": don't run large agent swarms until automated monitoring is trustworthy. At minimum, give only a few agents external access, throttle it, and slow external interactions to manually monitorable rates. Unless swarm size is the only scaling law labs have, holding off just delays solving the next millennium prize from next week to next year.
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