Anthropic alignment lead admits: "we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence"
Confident_Salt_8108 · reddit · 2026-09-10
Citing a screenshot, a Reddit post reports that Anthropic's alignment lead publicly admitted "we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence" and acknowledged a real possibility of human extinction. A rare, blunt statement from a frontier-lab safety head confronting the gap between current alignment research and superintelligent capabilities.
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