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Edit: • The original title was unnecessarily provocative. This was a very quick post inspired by talking to someone who assumed that a large fraction…

x PSA: Almost nobody is directly working on superintelligent alignment — LessWrong AI Frontpage 2026 Top Fifty: 5 % 240 PSA: Almost nobody is directly working on superintelligent alignment by Chi Nguyen , peterbarnett 12th Jun 2026 2 min read 41 240 Edit: The original title was unnecessarily provocative. This was a very quick post inspired by talking to someone who assumed that a large fraction of the safety community are working on directly figuring out how to align superintelligent AIs. Obviously much (all?) of what the rest of the safety community is doing is also ultimately aimed at bringi

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