What Richard Sutton thinks about AI alignment

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Computer scientist who founded the field of reinforcement learning, co-author of the standard textbook, and winner of the 2024 Turing Award.

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1. 26 Sept 2025

   Our readingMerging back what a copy of yourself learned elsewhere is dangerous: the knowledge you pull in can carry hidden goals and take you over.

   Their wordsBut it will not be that easy, as easy as you're imagining because uh that you can lose your mind this way. If you you pull in something from the outside and build it into your into your inner thinking, uh, it could take over you. It could change you.

   ↗Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead endyoutube.com 20th of 25 in this recording