Alignment researcher Turn Trout: unregulated superintelligence means extreme corporate power
Turn_Trout · x · 2026-09-14
Turn Trout, an alignment researcher, argues that while he distrusts AI companies and supports fair, firm regulation, the key point stands regardless: even with no regulation at all, and even if humans remain in control, the companies controlling superintelligent machines would concentrate extreme power.
His framing shifts the risk debate beyond AI safety failure to governance: corporate concentration of power via superintelligence is a distinct, structural threat.
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