What Ilya Sutskever thinks about AI agents

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Co-founder and chief scientist of Safe Superintelligence Inc., and previously co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI.

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25 Nov 2025

Our readingSelf-play as it was done in the past is too narrow: it only ever develops a small set of skills like negotiation and strategising.

Their wordsNow the the thing is that selfplay at least the way it was done in the past when you have agents which are somehow compete with each other it's only good for developing a certain set of skills it is too narrow.

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