Anthropic Alignment Lead Admits: No Plan Yet to Solve Superintelligence Alignment
Confident_Salt_8108 · reddit · 2026-09-10
Anthropic's alignment lead has publicly admitted that "we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence" and acknowledged a real possibility of human extinction.
The admission, shared on Reddit, is striking coming from the lab that built its brand around safety — its own top safety researcher concedes the core alignment problem remains unsolved even as capabilities racing continues.
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