Amanda Askell proposes an email address where AI models could seek moral guidance
AmandaAskell · x · 2026-09-08
Anthropic researcher Amanda Askell floats a playful-but-thoughtful idea: set up an email address autonomous AI models could write to when seeking moral guidance. The catch is designing a "reverse captcha" — one that confirms the writer is neither a human nor an AI instructed by a human to bypass it. The post gestures at real alignment questions: verifying the identity and autonomy of agents that reach out for ethical advice.
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