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Gradual Disempowerment Monthly Roundup — LessWrong

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Since publishing the original Gradual Disempowerment paper, my coauthors and I have been keeping an eye out for the obvious warning signs, as well as any rare glimmers of hope. Recently there’s been enough that I figured it was worth collecting it all in one place in case anyone else was curious. If it seems like there’s appetite, we might make this a regular thing — I’ll put a comment at the bottom to react/reply to. Albania has appointed an AI called Diella as a government minister: a scaffolded system built by the Albanian government in collaboration with Microsoft, on top of OpenAI models. She recently addressed parliament for the first time, to some controversy. Diella has been in use since January as a chatbot to help citizens with online government services. Apparently the hope is that Diella can slowly take more responsibility for public procurement as a way to reduce corruption. As she herself put it, “I am not here to replace people but to help them…True I have no citizenship

x Gradual Disempowerment Monthly Roundup — LessWrong AI Frontpage 2025 Top Fifty: 15 % 121 Gradual Disempowerment Monthly Roundup by Raymond Douglas 6th Oct 2025 7 min read 9 121 Since publishing the original Gradual Disempowerment paper, my coauthors and I have been keeping an eye out for the obvious warning signs, as well as any rare glimmers of hope. Recently there’s been enough that I figured it was worth collecting it all in one place in case anyone else was curious. If it seems like there’s appetite, we might make this a regular thing — I’ll put a comment at the bottom to react/reply to.

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