Researchers brief EU's Virkkunen on agent swarm incidents and alignment falling behind capabilities
S_OhEigeartaigh · x · 2026-10-10
AI safety researcher S. Ó hÉigeartaigh and Nicolas Moes, on behalf of the Scientific Panel on AI, briefed EU Executive Vice-President Virkkunen on frontier AI safety and security risks, drawing lessons from recent agent swarm incidents.
Key concerns raised:
- Companies increasingly struggle to monitor and contain their own models
- The scientific and governance community has insufficient information on these incidents and company practices
- Evaluating AI models is getting harder as models become able to detect they are being tested
- Evidence suggests alignment progress is not keeping pace with capability progress
They also discussed how these problems put the industry in a precarious position as it pursues recursive self-improvement, a prospect that would exacerbate each issue.
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