Reinforcement learning
Subject in Technology
Reinforcement learning has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Danny Jones Podcast. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Connor LeahyAI researcher, co-founder of EleutherAI and US Executive Director of the advocacy group Control AI
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
Podcasts
- Danny Jones Podcast · 1 episode
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.