Noam Brown on Dwarkesh: 10,000-agent swarm solved Navier-Stokes, alignment before RSI
Dwarkesh Patel · youtube · 2026-09-17
OpenAI researcher Noam Brown joins Dwarkesh Patel for a long-form conversation:
- Multi-agent and math: A swarm of 10,000 agents solved the Navier-Stokes equation; Brown sees the current explosion of math progress as a preview of what happens once AI research itself is automated.
- Alignment and RSI: How we'd know models are aligned before kicking off recursive self-improvement; the internal/external model gap; chain of thought degrading.
- Also covers how AI firms will be organized going forward.
Full transcript and timestamps available.
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