What Ryan Greenblatt thinks about AGI
Chief scientist at Redwood Research, where he works on technical AI safety and AI control.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Ryan Greenblatt has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingThere is essentially no cognitive task humans do where AI improvement is failing to transfer at all.
Their wordsit's really hard for me to think of examples of cognitive tasks humans do where we're not seeing some transfer from AI improving.
↗Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research?youtube.com 10th of 26 in this recording
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Their wordswe are making a trade-off where because we don't have very good alignment technology. We are going to like make an alien mind with its own values and then gamble on that to some extent rather than doing this other approach of making like a tool that pursues individual user intention.
↗Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research?youtube.com 13th of 26 in this recording