{
  "id": 10846334,
  "title": "Character Training for Risk-Averse Agents",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/character-training-for-risk-averse-agents",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-29T17:42:54.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38093v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Risk aversion in resources could prevent misaligned AI agents from causing catastrophic harm. Misaligned but risk-averse agents would tend to favor safer strategies like making deals with humans over riskier strategies like rebelling. We train agents to be risk averse through character training, finding that persona traits provide a robust mechanism for instilling risk preferences. To do this, we…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}