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Phase 15

Autonomous Systems

Agents that run without human intervention, safely.

Lessons (22)

  1. 01The Shift from Chatbots to Long-Horizon Agents
  2. 02STaR, V-STaR, Quiet-STaR — Self-Taught Reasoning
  3. 03AlphaEvolve — Evolutionary Coding Agents
  4. 04Darwin Godel Machine — Open-Ended Self-Modifying Agents
  5. 05AI Scientist v2 — Workshop-Level Autonomous Research
  6. 06Automated Alignment Research (Anthropic AAR)
  7. 07Recursive Self-Improvement — Capability vs Alignment
  8. 08Bounded Self-Improvement Designs
  9. 09The Autonomous Coding Agent Landscape (2026)
  10. 10Permission Modes for Autonomous Agents
  11. 11Browser Agents and Long-Horizon Web Tasks
  12. 12Long-Running Background Agents: Durable Execution
  13. 13Action Budgets, Iteration Caps, and Cost Governors
  14. 14Kill Switches, Circuit Breakers, and Canary Tokens
  15. 15Human-in-the-Loop: Propose-Then-Commit
  16. 16Checkpoints and Rollback
  17. 17Constitutional AI and Rule Overrides
  18. 18Llama Guard and Input/Output Classification
  19. 19Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy v3.0
  20. 20OpenAI Preparedness Framework and DeepMind Frontier Safety Framework
  21. 21METR Time Horizons and External Capability Evaluation
  22. 22CAIS, CAISI, and Societal-Scale Risk