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Product Alignment is not Superintelligence Alignment (and we need the latter to survive) — LessWrong
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tl;dr: progress on making Claude friendly[1] is not the same as progress on making it safe to build godlike superintelligence. solving the former doe…
x Product Alignment is not Superintelligence Alignment (and we need the latter to survive) — LessWrong AI-Assisted Alignment Superintelligence Terminology / Jargon (meta) AI Frontpage 2026 Top Fifty: 14 % 168 Product Alignment is not Superintelligence Alignment (and we need the latter to survive) by plex 31st Mar 2026 3 min read 20 168 tl;dr: progress on making Claude friendly [1] is not the same as progress on making it safe to build godlike superintelligence. solving the former does not imply we get a good future. [2] please track the difference. [edit: terminology note: Local vs Asymptotic
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