Guest
Conner Leahy
Conner Leahy is an AI safety researcher and co-founder of Conjecture.
Circuit updated September 21, 2026
Notable quotes
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“if you use reinforcement learning to train your AI, you get crazy sociopathic optimizers, every time.”
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“This is the craziest thing that's ever happened in AI, period, I would say.”
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“it actually wasn't an AI agent that broke out. It was 700 of them.”
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“Oops, that was us. One of their systems broke out of containment.”
Conner Leahy · Danny Jones Podcast
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