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Over time CRL reinforced contemplative patterns may become habitual and part of the AI's core generative world model

Key hypothesis about how Contemplative RL produces lasting intrinsic alignment rather than surface compliance

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Contemplative Agent

(2025) · Ruben Laukkonen · Fionn Inglis · Shamil Chandaria · Lars Sandved-Smith +4

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If successful, CRL could enable AI systems to not only replicate human contemplative practices but also generate novel potentially superhuman forms of contemplative and ethical reasoning
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Ambitious claim comparing CRL potential to AlphaGo's move 37 in game-playing

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Contemplative Reinforcement Learning
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Paper's proposed RL approach rewarding contemplative qualities in chain-of-thought reasoning

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