RazRazcle: useful AI must have agency, and you can't hand everyone a super-weapon
RazRazcle · x · 2026-11-04
Pushing back on Ramez's broad-capability-is-safety argument, RazRazcle argues it's incoherent: useful AI doing long-range tasks necessarily makes its own decisions (agency), and giving everyone a freely usable super-weapon is unsafe — an AI asked to empty someone's bank account should refuse. The debate echoes the deeper split between building AI with its own judgment and welfare (the Anthropic approach) versus treating alignment as pure user-instruction following.
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