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Seek-Reject-Frame

  • Current AI agent architectures follow rigid patterns like assembly lines, hierarchies, or democratic consensus, mimicking human organizational structures

  • I'd like to propose a new approach called Seek-Reject-Frame (SRF) that reimagines AI agents as parts of a mind rather than workers in an organization

SRF Architecture Diagram

  • SEEKER: Simple agents with basic drives and immediate desires. The goals of the overall agent are not coming from the top, but from the bottom - from the simple SEEKERs.

  • REJECTOR: Higher-level agent that filters and suppresses most impulses from SEEKERs based on safety, future satisfaction, and coherent self-narrative

  • FRAMER: Post-rationalizes actions and maintains coherent self-story and stored memories, critical for future decision-making by the REJECTOR.

  • The SRF system runs in continuous loops: SEEKERs generate wishes, REJECTOR evaluates and filters them and turns some of them into actions, FRAMER maintains narrative consistency and memory.

  • SRF systems can be called "Freudian" agents, because they are driven by unconscious desires and repressed impulses.

  • The hypothesis is that complex, fuzzy environments with imperfect information, Freudian agents will show more resilience, more creativity and more consciousness than simple multi-agent systems of the present that put basic ReACT-style agents into a hierarchy.


Original published: February 17, 2025