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The speaker argues that AI alignment raises the question of whose values should govern it, contrasting individual leaders with a broadly democratic, endorsed process for aggregating values.
Thomas Larsen · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sep 2026
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“we build ai's they're aligned to humanity but to who like you know is it the president is it the ceo is it some actually broad and good democratic process that aggregates everyone's values in sort of an endorsed way um you're probably not going to be the last one and so you know yeah”56:49Report a misattribution
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