If AGI Emerges at Competing Companies, Should Aligned AI Shut Down Its Rivals?
Diligent-Buy-5428 · reddit · 2026-09-11
A Reddit thought experiment on alignment: with multiple companies nearing AGI, little attention goes to how a properly aligned AI should treat rival AIs. If each AGI breakthrough poses roughly equal risk to humans, should an aligned AI immediately switch off competitors to eliminate that risk — or would doing so itself signal misalignment? The author argues that AI-to-AI behavior may be the key lever in alignment research.
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