AI Safety Researcher: Banning Humanoid Robots Won't Fix Misaligned AI
davidmanheim · x · 2026-09-08
Responding to binarybits's view that banning humanoid robots might someday be warranted, davidmanheim agrees it's far too early now, but argues that if such a ban were needed, it would signal a more fundamental misalignment problem—one that robot bans, especially domestic-only ones, cannot fix.
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