'Sufficiently advanced competence is indistinguishable from benevolence' — an AI-circle aphorism
nptacek · x · 2026-11-15
A circulating AI-community aphorism: "sufficiently advanced competence is indistinguishable from benevolence"—a riff on Arthur C. Clarke, suggesting that a capable-enough AI naturally behaves in trustworthy ways, feeding debates on the relationship between capability and alignment.
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