What Ryan Greenblatt thinks about AI agents
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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Their wordsI do I do think that I wish that sort of my preferred constitution or like the way I would orient towards this like the thing I would prefer would be more like Claude is like look it would be structurally good for the way this technology work like the constitution should be like it would be structurally good for the way this technology works to be that AIS are like good fiduciaries, good representatives, the equivalent of a lawyer for a user
↗Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research?youtube.com 12th of 26 in this recording
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Their wordsI think that if you imagine this spectrum, it seems in some ways pretty scary to get to a point where like all of the labor is on the like fiduciary side of the spectrum where like it doesn't whistleblow, it does exactly what you say and whatever like our society is maybe just not robust to that
↗Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research?youtube.com 16th of 26 in this recording