What Samuel Hammond thinks about AI agents
Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.
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2 dated positions, 2025 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Samuel Hammond has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingAI agents will soon reach superhuman, AlphaZero-like performance across a wide range of domains.
Their wordswe should therefore expect AI agents to achieve AlphaZero-like, superhuman performance in a wide and expanding variety of domains.
↗The Sorcerer’s Apprenticesecondbest.ca 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsConsistent with the Kantian hypothesis, reasoning models automatically gain greater autonomy, self-consistency and long-horizon planning ability for free.