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Matthew Yglesias

What Matthew Yglesias thinks about AI alignment

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Writes Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American politics and public policy; co-founded Vox in 2014 and left it in 2020.

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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Matthew Yglesias has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingThere is now broad agreement within AI safety circles that fully open AI development is undesirable.

    Their wordsI think it's now pretty widely agreed in safety circles that total openness is in fact not desirable.

    ↗A simple plan to save the world from rogue A.I.slowboring.com 1st of 3 in this piece

  3. Our readingOnly a safe, aligned superintelligence built within liberal democracies can entrench liberal-democratic values globally.

    Their wordsOnly a safe, well-aligned superintelligence developed in the world of liberal democracies could entrench liberal-democratic values.

    ↗A simple plan to save the world from rogue A.I.slowboring.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

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  5. Our readingAI safety worriers and AI optimists both believe AI will be a hugely transformative economic success, unlike the AI-bubble skeptics.

    optimism

    Their wordsFrom an investment viewpoint, the opposite of the safetyist view is "it's all a bubble," not "A.I. is going to be really good."

    ↗The economy could survive a downtick in A.I.slowboring.com 2nd of 2 in this piece