AI Safety Researcher Warns Human Oversight Is a Dead Loop

AI safety researcher David Manheim warns that even if alignment is eventually solved, current trajectories lead to disaster, as AI outpaces human oversight. He notes that long-predicted failures of model self-explanation under optimization pressure are now coming true.

2026-11-14 ~ 2026-11-16 · 2 related posts

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