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Ryan Greenblatt presents a reward-hacking takeover as one possible, but not exhaustive, scenario for AI takeover.
Ryan Greenblatt · Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · 11 Aug 2026
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“I would say like all the way from reward hacking to like a reward hacking like takeover, which is maybe not,”
“it's not all of the takeover probability mass,”
“but it's definitely a possibility.”Play from 1:19:48Report a misattribution
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