Safety and alignment

Ilya Sutskever argues for capped, coordinated superintelligence

In a full interview, Sutskever argued for robust alignment, frontier-lab safety collaboration, and a cap on the most powerful superintelligence while acknowledging that the restraint mechanism remains unresolved.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
AWAY FROM DOOM33confidence 58/100

Why it moved the index

The interview adds a concrete restraint and alignment pathway for reducing loss-of-control risk, but it is an unimplemented proposal whose enforcement mechanism is still unknown.

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Assessment history

  1. R1
    Away 33 · confidence 58

    New dated full first-person interview adds distinct safety reasoning not represented in the durable corpus.

    13 Aug 2026
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