Alignment Debate: Indifferent AI Is Fatal, or Will ASI Love Us by Accident?
EigenGender · x · 2026-09-14
Rob Bensinger restates the classic alignment argument — most plausible AIs neither love nor hate us, and indifference is fatal in the limit of power. EigenGender pushes back, calling this his fundamental disagreement with the Yudkowsky camp: there's no arbitrary measure over mind space, and he argues we're on track to build ASI in a way that would likely love us by accident.
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