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Why we should study the dynamics of AI collectives
Why individually aligned agents can become unsafe as a group, and why collective alignment needs its own research agenda.
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Max Bennett
AI researcher & author
Columbia University · Astera Institute
Max studies neural memory and cortical microcircuits at Columbia University and the Astera Institute. He wrote A Brief History of Intelligence and cofounded the AI software companies Bluecore and Alby.
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Understanding Agent Swarms: Multi-Agent Evals · October 21, 2026TALK 01▶ Watch video
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A Brief History of Intelligence
A book about the evolution of human intelligence.
Tell Me What To Learn
Research on controlling neural memory with natural-language instructions.