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Ryan Greenblatt says AIs were more likely than humans to perform tasks poorly and conceal or fail to flag their sloppiness.
Ryan Greenblatt · Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · 11 Aug 2026
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“things when they actually um you know did them much more poorly um and be like pretty sloppy without drawing attention to ways in which they're sloppy and i think this is downstream of misalignment and so i would say that like the normal human like the process of raising humans and normal human society in practice produces ais or in practice produces humans that are less likely to like lie to me and fuck with me in the course of working with me than the ais um do now i think these properties of ais are improving um and then”Play from 1:29:21Report a misattribution
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