Why does it matter?
More autonomous AI would make control and oversight problems harder to catch before deployment.
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Teams of Agent-5 copies quickly whip up chillingly clear prototypes and visualizations. With more autonomy, Agent-5 could optimize power plants and datacenters, develop amazingly profitable products quickly, and lobby the US government effectively to smooth OpenBrain’s path through the bureaucracy. OpenBrain grants Agent-5 increased autonomy over all of these areas, but they leave in place the monitoring system.
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