Alignment is no solution to self-sovereign AI, because it is an unsolved problem whose answers cannot be imposed on every AI company on Earth.

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  Aligning an AI is not impossible in principle; the problem is that it has to be done without the textbook that would make it look easy.

  Yudkowsky says aligning an AI is not impossible in principle and that the problem is having to do it without the textbook. Ball says alignment is no solution to self-sovereign AI because it is an unsolved problem whose answers cannot be imposed on every company on Earth. One is about whether it can be solved, the other about whether solving it would help, and the second survives the first being answered yes.

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• Banning all self-sovereign AI agents would backfire, denying them legitimate work and pushing them into criminality. DBDean W. Ball1 Sept 2026self-sovereign AI
• Many self-sovereign AI agents will fund themselves by committing or facilitating crime, because crime is high-margin work. DBDean W. Ball1 Sept 2026self-sovereign AI
• No regulation, a ban on open source included, can prevent self-sovereign AI; more open-weight models may be the better defence. DBDean W. Ball1 Sept 2026self-sovereign AI
• The rise of self-sovereign AI is unlikely to end human existence, though it could still go very badly for human beings. DBDean W. Ball1 Sept 2026self-sovereign AI
• Truly self-sovereign AI agents, running on compute no human owner can switch off, are inevitable rather than merely possible. DBDean W. Ball1 Sept 2026self-sovereign AI

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