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The speaker expects aligning AI models to become harder as the models grow more sophisticated.

Thomas Larsen · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026

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“I think it's going to get harder because the models will just be.”
“there will be a bunch of properties the models will have which will make it much harder to align them in particular so we're already seeing sort of growth in situational awareness where like the ai is a few years ago we're like kind of not that situationally aware and then now i think they're like pretty good at you know recognizing like for example our friends at redwood uh um you know they often do sort of these control evals and the models often you know in the evaluations where they're like trying to break out of these control setups”
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