One-liner alignment question: why would a smarter species ever care about a weaker one?
petergyang · x · 2026-09-09
The author asks Evan Hubinger a classic alignment question: throughout history, if species A is more intelligent than species B, why would A care more about B's interests than its own? It seems very hard to do. The one-liner gestures at skepticism toward the assumption that superintelligent AI would treat humans well, touching the core tension in AI alignment debates.
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