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[Linkpost] "Resolution has a new Agent Foundations team" by Jeremy Gillen

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LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
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Sep 3, 2026
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Summary

This is a link post. The team will include me (Jeremy Gillen), Abram Demski, Sam Eisenstat, Scott Garrabrant and Kaarel Hänni. We'll soon recruit additional experienced researchers and later we plan to hire interns and junior researchers. The team will continue agent foundations research in the spirit of the MIRI Agent Foundations team. This means we’ll be trying to create new theory for understanding minds. Fundamental changes in how we understand minds are necessary before we can build ...