Brundage: Even Perfect AI Alignment Wouldn't Stop Competitive Corner-Cutting
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-09-17
Miles Brundage poses a thought experiment: even if we had a perfect recipe for making frontier models perfectly safe and aligned (he stresses we do not), companies would still want to build the next capability level — and competition would tempt them to cut corners along the way.
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