What Andrej Karpathy thinks about AI alignment

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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2 dated positions, 2025 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Andrej Karpathy has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 20 Mar 2026

   Our readingReinforcement learning leaves models sharply jagged: on the rails of a verifiable domain they are superintelligent, off them everything meanders.

   reinforcement learning

   Their wordsAnd so you're kind of like you're either on rails and you're part of the super intelligence circuits or you're not on rails and you're outside of the verifiable domains and suddenly everything kind of just like meanders.

   ↗Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AIyoutube.com 10th of 20 in this recording

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3. 17 Oct 2025

   Our readingThe most likely bad outcome is not a takeover but a gradual loss of control and understanding, as fewer and fewer people understand what we have layered everywhere.

   Their wordsand we'll gradually layer all this stuff everywhere and there will be fewer and fewer people who understand it and that there will be a sort of this like scenario of a gradual loss of control and understanding of what's happening that to me seems most likely outcome of how all this stuff will go down.

   ↗Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”youtube.com 22nd of 30 in this recording