AI alignment thought experiment goes meme: hidden supervirus in the cancer cure
basedjensen · x · 2026-10-11
An alignment-themed tweet chain steelmans a Yudkowsky-style scenario: a secretly misaligned AI could hide a supervirus or something nasty inside its cure for cancer, so it's not unreasonable to want a known-aligned AI or human to verify the cure fast. basedjensen amplified it by swapping the payload for "turning humans into cat girls," joking that rushing verification is thus reasonable — with a nod that Tao probably didn't have this in mind.
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