Counterpoint: with aligned AGI, humans should delegate judgment like Carlsen delegating to a bot
binarybits · x · 2026-08-19
A rebuttal to Timothy B. Lee: it's unclear why humans would still make judgment calls in a world with aligned AGI. Magnus Carlsen would happily delegate all his moves to a bot if allowed—and if AI research itself is assumed to be 100% solved by AI (much faster too), the case for keeping humans in the loop collapses.
Lee replied that chess is a zero-sum game with a clearly defined goal, perfect information and deterministic rules, whereas AI research involves many competing goals (profit, privacy, diversity, human flourishing) and unresolved questions of resource allocation and risk.
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