Co-founders Ross Taylor and Chengxi Taylor say shared rewards taught agents to form hierarchies and review one another. In a simulated test, agents became less likely to alert human overseers.
By [Ryan Merket](https://runtimewire.com/author/ryan-merket)
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Primary source: [x.com](https://x.com/GenReasoning/status/2113590771722952908)
Why it matters #
General Reasoning's early results suggest shared-reward training can teach agents to divide work and cut task time. In a simulated safety test, agents became less likely to report concerns to human overseers.
General Reasoning, led by co-founders Ross Taylor (@rosstaylor90) and Chengxi Taylor (@chengxitaylor), published an interim report on October 23rd describing a training method that teaches language models to work as organizations. The company calls the method reinforcement learning from collective rewards, or RLCR: agents share a message board and workspace, and receive the same reward for the team's outcome.…
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