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Prime Intellect's Elie Bakouch argues parallel test-time compute can accelerate long-term AI agent safety evaluations

This prevents testing periods from outlasting rapid model development

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elie@eliebakouch#896inTech

> it may turn out that the only way to confidently evaluate misalignment in an AI agent at a 1-year horizon is to actually run the agent for a yea

this is a bit confusing imo, AI agent time is quite different from human time, 1 year horizon task is quite different from running the agent for 1y no?

you can probably find a hardware/parallelism config that optimizes speed for very long evals, or even tradeoff sequential test time compute with parallel test time compute? (but then it's a bit different i agree)

also output token is not perfect for things like autoresearch, a big portion of the time is actually spent in "tool call" which here are training runs

Noam Brown@polynoamial

http://x.com/i/article/2057694226981257216

7:19 AM · Jun 9, 2026 · 2.3K Views

/Tech7h ago

Prime Intellect's Elie Bakouch argues parallel test-time compute can accelerate long-term AI agent safety evaluations

This prevents testing periods from outlasting rapid model development

283241214449.3K

#192

Original post

elie@eliebakouch#896inTech

> it may turn out that the only way to confidently evaluate misalignment in an AI agent at a 1-year horizon is to actually run the agent for a yea

this is a bit confusing imo, AI agent time is quite different from human time, 1 year horizon task is quite different from running the agent for 1y no?

also output token is not perfect for things like autoresearch, a big portion of the time is actually spent in "tool call" which here are training runs

Noam Brown@polynoamial

http://x.com/i/article/2057694226981257216

7:19 AM · Jun 9, 2026 · 2.3K Views

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Suhail@Suhail

I had not fully considered this possibility before. Interesting.

Noam Brown@polynoamial

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Ivan Kirigin@ikirigin

@Suhail I'd bet the long scale time horizon == the development cycle.

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search founder@n0riskn0r3ward

@eliebakouch @polynoamial He's stated once before that serial CoT is more compute efficient. So while you could attempt to approximate serial CoT performance with parallel approaches I think he's suggesting the saftey issues are more likely to arise from lengthly serial CoT scenarios

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Diogo Neves 👨‍💻 / ☕️@DiogoSnows

@Suhail Unless I misunderstood, at that point there’s extra pressure on doing larger intelligent steps per iteration and setting a hard limit? Reducing the effort it takes to achieve the same result, essentially continuing to increase quality without allowing unbounded reasoning time?

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