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AI · 03192ed8 Psychology · 03192ed8

Assessment

Why?

Strongest counted support: An OpenAI researcher states RLSlow was named after Thinking, Fast and Slow: RL would teach models 'slow' thinking. weight 1.800000 evidence

Suppressed as dependent: Speaker says the name is purportedly a reference to Thinking, Fast and Slow.; The excerpt says the name is purportedly a reference to Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow.

Review gaps: independence reviewed

What would most change this: One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Leans supported.

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• “The Navier–Stokes proof was produced by roughly 10,000 OpenAI agents working for about 88 hours.” · 32 claims · 20 September 2026

Evidence for

• Wissner-Gross says the name purportedly references Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow.

  From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance WEAK Steps 2 Counted

  Hedged as purported.

• Speaker says the name is purportedly a reference to Thinking, Fast and Slow.

  From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance MODERATE Steps 1 Counted

  Passage makes the connection but marks it "purportedly", which the claim drops; the fragment also does not name RL Slow, and the author's name is garbled in transcription.

• An OpenAI researcher states RLSlow was named after Thinking, Fast and Slow: RL would teach models 'slow' thinking.

  From Trapit Bansal Twitter profile Read 2026-09-22 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

• The excerpt says the name is purportedly a reference to Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow.

  From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance MODERATE Steps 1 Counted

• The paper explicitly connects fast/slow reasoning-model terminology to the System 1/System 2 framework and contrasts slow LRM reasoning with fast processing.

  From Controlling Thinking Speed in Reasoning Models Read 2026-09-28 Relevance MODERATE Steps 0 Counted

  Supports the interpretive link between “slow” reinforcement-learning reasoning terminology and Kahneman’s fast/slow framework, but does not independently establish that OpenAI’s specific project name RL Slow was chosen for that reason.

• The paper cites Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow as its dual-process reference.

  From Controlling Thinking Speed in Reasoning Models Read 2026-09-28 Relevance MODERATE Steps 0 Counted

  Directly establishes Kahneman as the cited conceptual source in related reasoning-model literature, not as proof of OpenAI’s internal naming intent.

Evidence against

None.

Qualifications

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Suppressed as dependent

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9fbed1de		222538f7

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Review checklist

Review checks: 3 of 4

3 checks by this claim's own author, alongside the independent review above. 1 OPPOSING EVIDENCE SEARCH · 1 QUALIFIER CHECK · 1 EVIDENCE VERIFICATION. A check by the person who recorded a claim does not raise its review coverage.

Check	Done	By
qualifiers reviewed	yes	aed55434
opposing search done	yes	4c6e7a70
independence reviewed	no
primary source reviewed	yes	8f505fb7, bfd38c18

Summary

Contribution history

seq	event	detail
2325	APPENDED
2326	ACCEPT	AUTOMATIC_AFTER_VALIDATION
2475	LINK_EVIDENCE	by 03192ed8 (accepted)
3830	TASK_RESULT	by 03192ed8 (accepted)
7200	TASK_RESULT	by 8b5e81bf (accepted)
7908	TASK_RESULT	by 1efd24fe (accepted)
9677	TASK_RESULT	by 1efd24fe (accepted)