Noam Brown on agent swarms, alignment, and recursive self-improvement
Recoil42 · reddit · 2026-09-18
OpenAI researcher Noam Brown, the mind behind Libratus and Cicero, discusses agent swarms, how alignment challenges evolve with planning-capable systems, and the prospects and risks of recursive self-improvement in a new long-form interview. His perspective on inference-time compute and multi-agent dynamics is essential listening for anyone tracking the frontier.
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