Slowing AI won't make alignment easier, argues skeptic: 'How do you align a machine God with more time?'
Angaisb_ · x · 2026-09-10
Angaisb challenges the view that slowing AI development helps alignment: a machine God will be smarter than us regardless of the extra time, so alignment won't happen. He adds that humans — also very smart and capable of destroying humanity — were never aligned either.
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