Education as an AI safety area: Ruxandra Teslo argues classrooms are an alignment frontline
mikeflache · x · 2026-10-12
In a Substack essay, Ruxandra Teslo argues that if humanity relies on its own judgment to guide AI, it must actively maintain the institutions that cultivate that judgment.
Key points:
- Outsourcing intellectual work to AI risks atrophying human cognitive capacities, as people prefer ceding control to machines
- She repositions the classroom as a critical defense line for AI alignment: safeguarding human education matters as much as auditing model code
- The essay frames the current accelerationist-vs-safety split — Trump dismissed AI loss-of-control as a "hoax" while Dario Amodei called for "pacing the frontier" and permanent outside-evaluator access, with Sam Altman agreeing — as evidence that human judgment itself needs institutional protection
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