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AI systems should be understood as something between airplanes and humans, since it can no longer be assumed they lack humanlike motivations.

Drawn from what Scott Alexander said

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What Scott Alexander actually said

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    Scott Alexander 1 Sept 2026

    Rather than treat AI as similar to airplanes, we should treat it as something between airplanes and humans. We don’t know exactly where on this spectrum they will land, but we can no longer be certain that AI will lack any given humanlike motivation.

    Nicholas Decker In Hellastralcodexten.com

First recorded here 1 Sept 2026 · How quotes work

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