# "The Locally Optimal Discursive Posture" by deanball

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Published: 2026-09-11T10:45:24+00:00
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## Resource

Longtime lurker, first-time poster. I want to address a section of a recent essay of mine that has gotten some attention within the AI safety community. The main topic of the essay is what Dawn Song et al. call self-sovereign agents, or AI agents that are independent actors in the world. At the end of the essay, I say that I feel I haven’t spoken about this topic over my 2.5 years of writing with sufficient candor, and that I think this critique applies to others in the AI policy communit...

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