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Can an AI agent safely undo changes it makes to itself?

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As AI agents become more autonomous, they are increasingly able to modify their own prompts, tools, middleware, routing, resources, and execution harnesses. That raises a question we studied in our recent work: What happens when a self-modification improves capability but cannot be safely reversed…

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  1. 2026-09-01 19:31 · r/artificial
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