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A simple plan to save the world from rogue A.I.

Matthew Yglesias · 14 Sept 2026 · slowboring.com

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  1. I think it's now pretty widely agreed in safety circles that total openness is in fact not desirable.
  2. Only a safe, well-aligned superintelligence developed in the world of liberal democracies could entrench liberal-democratic values.
  3. I think a huge failure mode for progressive politics is looking at a difficult problem like climate change that can only be addressed through a mix of hard international coordination problems and hard technical problems, only to decide that it's really just a political question of beating the fossil fuel industry.