Would you take an AI-developed drug no human understands? Alignment debate reignites
inductionheads · x · 2026-10-11
thomasfbloom tweeted that seeing many people happily take an entirely AI-developed drug that no human understands raised his P(doom), or at least his probability of significant disaster. inductionheads quote-posted in rebuttal: "Are we really going to gate human progress on human understanding?" The exchange crystallizes a core interpretability-versus-progress tension in AI alignment debates.
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