Alexandr Wang: Alignment may be the gating factor for scaling at the frontier
alexandr_wang · x · 2026-09-13
Alexandr Wang, head of Meta Superintelligence Labs, says alignment is fundamental to delivering personal superintelligence: people need agents they can trust to reliably do what they ask. MSL is rapidly scaling up the share of effort going into alignment as models grow more powerful, and he believes alignment could become the gating factor for scaling as they approach the frontier.
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