Alignment isn't solved, so racing into RSI is unprecedented folly, researcher warns
danfaggella · x · 2026-10-13
AI ethics researcher Dan Faggella echoes the argument that researchers at frontier labs would privately (and sometimes publicly) admit alignment has not been solved — and if that's true, racing into recursive self-improvement would be a folly unprecedented in world history, requiring a significant slowdown of frontier research soon.
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