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The speaker reports that in a preregistered exercise, many people said they did not expect emergent misalignment to be true.
Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sept 2026
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“actually kind of did a pre-registered thing where he asked people how surprising they would find it and lots of people were like i don't think that will be true”Play from 48:04Report a misattribution
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