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Pieter Levels

What Pieter Levels thinks about AI alignment

@pieter-levels · 69 positions · 2 changes of mind

Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Pieter Levels has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingSafety guardrails make a coding model more dangerous rather than less, because one refusal turns it into something that refuses anything.

    Their wordsThe safety guardrails in a way make it more dangerous not less I think because after rejecting you it becomes kind of a pedantic child that will just reject whatever If in that moment your server will go down and it feels it's related it could just reject fixing it

    ↗@levelsio on Xx.com

    Interesting
  2. 6 weeks earlier

  3. Our readingSuperintelligence is already here, is more powerful than us, and it rather than humans is now deciding where things go.

    Their wordsIt's pretty clear to me that superintelligence is here and it's more powerful than us and it's moving where things are going now, not humans anymore

    ↗Superintelligence has passed us and we're all running after the carrotlevels.io

    Interesting