Meta's Alexandr Wang: Alignment May Become the Gating Factor for Scaling
altryne · x · 2026-09-13
Asked whether Meta has any pacing commitment on alignment, Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang replied that 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 get more powerful, and Meta believes alignment could become the gating factor for scaling near the frontier.
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