Why AI Control grew: it is highly lab-incentive and lab-story compatible
jankulveit · x · 2026-09-07
Follow-up in the same thread: AI Control became a larger share of x-risk mitigation partly because it is highly compatible with lab incentives and narratives — 'we will get misaligned AGIs solve ASI alignment' is a story labs like. This supplements the thread's core argument that AI Control may increase existential risk.
Related event: Researchers Warn AI Control Agenda May Raise Extinction Risk(4 posts)→
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