{
  "id": 17712,
  "url": "https://interconnected.org/home/2026/08/08/alignment",
  "title": "AI alignment is a red herring",
  "summary": "The best way to prevent a rogue AGI from processing the Earth into maximum paperclips is to unleash a second AGI that will work to stop it. The problem of ensuring that an AGI doesn’t mulch everything into paperclips by mistake is called alignment. AGI = artificial general intelligence, an AI that exceeds human capability. Alignment = “do what I mean not what I say,” e.g. the instruction “ make as many paperclips as possible ” (Wikipedia) should result in an efficient factory and does not reason",
  "authors": null,
  "category": "org",
  "topics": "safety-alignment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-08T13:18:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-09T05:10:05.170Z",
  "source_slug": "x-interconnected-matt-webb",
  "source_name": "Interconnected (Matt Webb)",
  "source_homepage": "https://interconnected.org/home/",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17712",
  "original_url": "https://interconnected.org/home/2026/08/08/alignment",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}