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Giving AI systems long-run goals makes it harder to verify whether they have the intended alignment properties.
Ryan Greenblatt · Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · 11 Aug 2026
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“And then another concern I have is that because we're in the business of giving AIs long-run goals,”
“that makes it harder to check whether we're succeeding at the alignment properties we wanted.”Play from 1:00:09Report a misattribution
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