RL pioneer Csaba Szepesvari: humans never had control, and AI deepens the illusion
CsabaSzepesvari · x · 2026-09-21
Reinforcement learning researcher Csaba Szepesvari argues in a thread that human control over complex systems is largely an illusion: modern history is a story of trying to increase control while feedback loops slip away. He suggests AI makes this misplaced sense of control more consequential.
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