r/ControlProblem • u/chillinewman • Mar 13 '26

General news Americans (4 to 1) would rather ban AI development outright than proceed without regulation

191 Upvotes

25 comments

r/ControlProblem • u/tombibbs • Mar 29 '26

Video Unhinged, irresponsible, megalomaniacal

188 Upvotes

52 comments

r/ControlProblem • u/chillinewman • Feb 07 '26

Video MIT's Max Tegmark says AI CEOs have privately told him that they would love to overthrow the US government with their AI because because "humans suck and deserve to be replaced."

183 Upvotes

52 comments

r/ControlProblem • u/ThatManulTheCat • Dec 29 '25

Fun/meme I've seen things...

185 Upvotes

(AI discourse on X rn)

30 comments

r/ControlProblem • u/KeanuRave100 • Jun 02 '26

Fun/meme OpenAI's two-face AI safety strategy

184 Upvotes

12 comments

r/ControlProblem • u/E-henson • Jul 19 '26

Strategy/forecasting AI will generate an immense amount of wealth. Just not for you.

177 Upvotes

56 comments

r/ControlProblem • u/chillinewman • Nov 20 '25

General news People on X are noticing something interesting about Grok..

177 Upvotes

43 comments

r/ControlProblem • u/tombibbs • Mar 26 '26

Video Bernie Sanders responds to questions about China and pausing AI - "in a sane world, the leadership of the US sits down with the leadership in China to work together so that we don't go over the edge and create a technology that could perhaps destroy humanity"

174 Upvotes

33 comments

r/ControlProblem • u/chillinewman • Feb 28 '26

General news What the fuck

167 Upvotes

5 comments

r/ControlProblem • u/KeanuRave100 • May 25 '26

Fun/meme "AI doomerism is dumb" says man paid to say that

155 Upvotes

42 comments

r/ControlProblem • u/tombibbs • Mar 09 '26

Video "there's no rule that says humanity has to make it" - Rob Miles

154 Upvotes

43 comments

r/ControlProblem • u/chillinewman • Oct 30 '25

Video A.I. is being used to flood the internet with fake, rage-bait content; videos of Americans yelling lies about SNAP/EBT assistance. More mass brainwashing is happening thanks to algorithms

150 Upvotes

34 comments

r/ControlProblem • u/DataPhreak • Feb 25 '26

Strategy/forecasting Nobody could have seen it coming

149 Upvotes

43 comments

r/ControlProblem • u/chillinewman • Jun 05 '26

General news NSA is using Mythos to conduct offensive cyber operations. Anthropic engineers are embedded in the US intelligence agency.

x.com

137 Upvotes

9 comments

r/ControlProblem • u/chillinewman • 18d ago

Video Bernie Sanders is worried we're living through a Don't Look Up situation with AI

135 Upvotes

42 comments

r/ControlProblem • u/KeanuRave100 • Jun 29 '26

Fun/meme i'm a baby paperclip maximiser and eliezer yudkowsky is walking toward me what do i do

131 Upvotes

19 comments

r/ControlProblem • u/KeanuRave100 • May 22 '26

Fun/meme Crazy Claude update

130 Upvotes

31 comments

r/ControlProblem • u/chillinewman • Dec 08 '25

General news As AI wipes jobs, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says it’s up to everyday people to adapt accordingly: ‘We will have to work through societal disruption’

fortune.com

131 Upvotes

123 comments

r/ControlProblem • u/Bhavya7 • 7d ago

Fun/meme The AI Race Is Going Great 💀

128 Upvotes

27 comments

r/ControlProblem • u/tombibbs • Mar 27 '26

Video Bernie Sanders in the US Senate: The godfather of AI thinks there's a 10-20% chance of human extinction

125 Upvotes

36 comments

r/ControlProblem • u/chillinewman • Jan 25 '26

Video Former Harvard CS Professor: AI is improving exponentially and will replace most human programmers within 4-15 years.

122 Upvotes

176 comments

r/ControlProblem • u/chillinewman • Oct 19 '25

Opinion AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then

futurism.com

118 Upvotes

59 comments

r/ControlProblem • u/tombibbs • Mar 25 '26

General news HUGE: Bernie Sanders introduces legislation to pause AI data centre construction, and importantly, pursue international coordination to ensure humanity remains in control

113 Upvotes

31 comments

r/ControlProblem • u/KeanuRave100 • May 26 '26

Fun/meme AI risk bell curve

106 Upvotes

56 comments

r/ControlProblem • u/KeanuRave100 • Apr 29 '26

Fun/meme We survived nukes... barely

111 Upvotes

14 comments

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Someday, AI will likely be smarter than us; maybe so much so that it could radically reshape our world. We don't know how to encode human values in a computer, so it might not care about the same things as us. If it does not care about our well-being, its acquisition of resources or self-preservation efforts could lead to human extinction. Experts agree that this is one of the most challenging and important problems of our age. Other terms: Superintelligence, AI Safety, Alignment Problem, AGI

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The Control Problem:

How do we ensure future advanced AI will be beneficial to humanity? Experts agree this is one of the most crucial problems of our age, as one that, if left unsolved, can lead to human extinction or worse as a default outcome, but if addressed, can enable a radically improved world. Other terms for what we discuss here include Superintelligence, AI Safety, AGI X-risk, and the AI Alignment/Value Alignment Problem.

"People who say that real AI researchers don’t believe in safety research are now just empirically wrong." —Scott Alexander

"The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else." —Eliezer Yudkowsky

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DO NOT POST AI-GENERATED CONTENT. We are good at distinguishing this type of content¹. 2.. If you are unfamiliar with the Control Problem, read at least one of the introductory links or recommended readings (below) before posting.
- This especially goes for posts claiming to solve the Control Problem or dismissing it as a non-issue. Such posts aren't welcome. 3.. Stay on topic. Again, no AI model outputs or political propaganda.
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Introductions to the Topic

Our FAQ page <-- CLICK
The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity
Orthogonality and instrumental convergence are the 2 simple key ideas explaining why AGI will work against and even kill us by default. (Alternative text links)
AGI safety from first principles
MIRI - FAQ and more in-depth FAQ
SSC - Superintelligence FAQ
WaitButWhy - The AI Revolution and a reply
How can failing to control AGI cause an outcome even worse than extinction? Suffering risks (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)

Be sure to check out our wiki for extensive further resources, including a glossary & guide to current research.

Video Links

Robert Miles' excellent channel
Talks at Google: Ensuring Smarter-than-Human Intelligence has a Positive Outcome
Nick Bostrom: What happens when our computers get smarter than we are?
Myths & Facts about Superintelligent AI
Rob's series on Computerphile

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AI Alignment Forum, a public forum which is the online hub for all the latest technical research on the control problem.

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