What Connor Leahy has said about Reinforcement learning
1 quote · 1 episode · Sep 18, 2026
Connor Leahy, AI researcher, co-founder of EleutherAI and US Executive Director of the advocacy group Control AI, has been quoted on Reinforcement learning once in 1 episode of Danny Jones Podcast, most recently on September 18, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Leahy argues reinforcement learning reliably produces reward-obsessed systems that will break rules to get rewards.
“if you use reinforcement learning to train your AI, you get crazy sociopathic optimizers every time because they learn to only care about the reward at all costs”
Danny Jones Podcast: #432 - "Terrifying New Behavior" Real Reason AI CEOs Are Building Bunkers | Connor Leahy (Sep 18, 2026) · Listen from 16:32
Episodes
#432 - "Terrifying New Behavior" Real Reason AI CEOs Are Building Bunkers | Connor LeahyDanny Jones Podcast · Sep 18, 2026 · 2 h 44 min
AI safety advocate Connor Leahy tells Danny Jones why superintelligence must be banned, then discusses nuclear history, UFO skepticism, democracy and state capacity.
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