@maxkw.bsky.social
professor at university of washington and scientist at Google DeepMind. computational cognitive scientist. working on social and artificial intelligence and alignment.
http://faculty.washington.edu/maxkw/
@maxkw.bsky.socialWe won best paper at the COLM Workshop on Agent Behavior for our paper: AI Assistants Overassist!
Congratulations @veronateo.bsky.social, Raghav Jain and @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social! Check out the preprint arxiv.org/abs/2607.21306
@maxkw.bsky.socialEveryone is excited about recursive *self* improvement (RSI) but human progress is social and driven by cumulative culture. Individuals stand on the shoulders of past giants. Our new paper tests whether LLM swarms benefit from an alternative RSI: recursive *social* improvement.
@maxkw.bsky.socialOur newest work unifying game theoretic ideas about the evolution of cooperation with the emergence of computation itself. Self-replicating programs first emerge through random mutation and then spread by cooperating.