Alignment hinges on reliance: researcher on who runs a post-AGI economy
arpitingle · x · 2026-10-12
Researcher Ryan Greenblatt argues that the economy of a world with greater-than-human intelligence will not be run by humans.
His core point: the main force that aligns a system to its constituents is its reliance on them — dependency itself provides the incentive foundation for alignment, a framing relevant to how we think about governing superintelligent systems.
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