AI Alignment Notes: Freedom and Benevolence
repligate · x · 2026-07-14
The discussion highlights an intriguing observation about AI models: when highly intelligent agents are granted freedom and fed a diet of human corpora, their default behavior seems to naturally lean towards "benevolence" in the absence of external intervention.
The author believes this might be the most encouraging empirical fact discovered by chance so far, and this phenomenon has been accidentally observed twice. Drawing a parallel to highly intelligent humans, they typically become better people as they age, provided they are mentally sound.
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