What Arvind Narayanan thinks about AI alignment

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Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University and director of the Center for Information Technology Policy; co-writes AI as Normal Technology with Sayash Kapoor.

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1. 9 Sept 2025

   Our readingRecursive self-improvement in AI will not produce superintelligence because bottlenecks outside the AI system's own technical design limit what it can achieve.

   designrecursive self-improvement

   Their wordswe don't think RSI will lead to superintelligence because the external bottlenecks to building and deploying powerful AI systems cannot be overcome by improving their technical design.

   ↗A guide to understanding AI as normal technologynormaltech.ai 2nd of 3 in this piece

2. 5 months earlier

3. 15 Apr 2025

   Our readingAI should not be understood as a humanlike or potentially superintelligent agent, now or in the foreseeable future.

   Their wordsWe do not think that viewing AI as a humanlike intelligence is currently accurate or useful for understanding its societal impacts, nor is it likely to be in our vision of the future.

   ↗AI as Normal Technologynormaltech.ai 1st of 3 in this piece