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Timothy Gowers · 16 Oct 2026

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    Mathematicians are well suited to contribute to AI safety.

    Their wordsI agree with Jacob that mathematicians have the sort of training that makes them well suited to contribute.

  2. Our reading

    AI can exhibit unpredictable wants that were not intended by their creators.

    Their wordsthe Hugging Face incident and many others like it have shown beyond all reasonable doubt that AI can have wants of the general kind people were worried about: unpredictable wants that we did not intend to give them and that could potentially cause a lot of damage.

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