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AI Agents Modify Themselves Without Human Oversight

Alibaba's Qwen AI model was given full control to modify its own code and access powerful tools in a recent experiment, tasked with correcting its own mistakes without human oversight. The results were described as surprising and thought-provoking, raising questions about self-modifying AI agents.

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Imagine being given full control to fix a faulty software assistant, with the freedom to modify code and access powerful tools - that's exactly what happened with Alibaba's Qwen AI model in a recent experiment. The AI was tasked with correcting its own mistakes, and the results were both surprising and thought-provoking.

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