The Hard Problem of Controlling Powerful AI Systems - Computerphile @Computerphile
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Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
As AI systems become more capable, rule-based safeguards, hard-coded restrictions, and simple alignment strategies start to break down. Buck Shlegeris talks about some tactics we might use as detailed in a recent paper.

The referenced paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.10374

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