Researcher: environment design, not just agent training, is key to AI safety
yaringal · x · 2026-09-22
Luckeciano Melo argues we should teach our agents to live in our environments: Environment Design is the key, and the field should embrace the ecological view of RL as a path to AI safety — treating environments as first-class, designable objects in which agents learn, rather than optimizing the agent alone.
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