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The speaker thinks a future of many specialized AI agents would retain serious alignment concerns but might be somewhat safer because their interactions could be easier to oversee than those of identical, broadly knowledgeable clones.
Daniel Kokotajlo · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“Like, I think still we'd be there'd be lots of serious alignment concerns in that world.”
“But I think it would be like a little bit safer because of the reason you mentioned where like, it might be easier to like oversee what's going on if there's lots of different specialized agents communicating with each other compared to if they're all just like clones of each other and they all know all the things.”Play from 47:14Report a misattribution
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