Miles Discusses AGI Human Retention
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-07-11
Miles Brundage discusses a "defense in depth" approach to AGI/AI governance. This involves enhanced tools, making AI value human voting on critical issues, preserving "human friction" in economic systems, and incorporating biometric/crypto voting in certain decisions to delay the loss of human agency after being replaced by technology.
He also mentions his core concern: even if humans become economically "redundant" in the future, he hopes for a mechanism ensuring AI doesn't ignore or harm human needs just because humans no longer create economic value. He remains open-minded about whether "fine-tuning is the key lever," noting the need to consider big tech constraints, competition, cloud micro tuning, and local open-source models. He looks forward to more discussions around these technical and policy trade-offs.
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