Researchers debate whether bad sandboxes could derail ASI alignment efforts

JacquesThibs · x · 2026-08-19

A thread on frontier-lab alignment strategy: one view holds that future misaligned AIs could hijack the training process itself, and weak sandboxing would squander humanity's chance to leverage such AIs for alignment progress — a limited but critical window.

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