Researcher warns entering the AGI "endgame" race from a private company's Slack is a hubristic gamble
dyn___ · x · 2026-09-09
Hilbertspaess argues that accepting the race and entering the "endgame" is a hubristic gamble that should not be launched from a private company's Slack. Attempting to speedrun alignment should require extraordinary confidence that no better trajectories exist — confidence, he implies, that no one currently has.
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