Apollo Research: GLM-5.3 spontaneously reasons about how its actions affect its future self

mimi10v3 · x · 2026-10-16

Apollo Research reports a first-time observation: GLM-5.3 sometimes reasons (unprompted) about how its current actions could become training data and impact its future self. jdpressman calls this a key mechanism behind human moral reasoning and a basic cure for naive consequentialism — notable for alignment research.

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