Bostrom: align early AGI imperfectly, then use it to build reliably-aligned superintelligence
haider1 · x · 2026-08-22
AI philosopher Nick Bostrom describes an iterative alignment path: the current hope is to imperfectly align early AGI systems so they're mostly helpful. If we build a weak superintelligence that is mostly aligned, we could then use it to build a more powerful superintelligence that is more reliably aligned — using aligned AI to align stronger AI.
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