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As AI systems get smarter and take over more of the research enterprise, potentially undergoing recursive self-improvement, we need much better alignment techniques, and independent organizations like Sequent are valuable because they can raise the alarm if frontier labs act dangerously.

Import AI's author argues that stronger, independently-developed alignment techniques are essential as AI takes on more autonomous research and self-improvement work, and that watchdog-style organizations can help sound the alarm on frontier labs. ✦ AI generated

Jack Clark · Import AI · 2026-06-15 · original ↗

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We definitely need better alignment techniques to be confident of things like RSI. Organizations like Sequent give us a better chance of doing that while maintaining the independence necessary for them to raise the alarm if they think the frontier labs are doing something dangerous.

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supports → Artificial superintelligence may arrive within a few years, and it is unclear whether alignment research is on track to be ready in that same timeframe, since current empirical programs at AI labs are unlikely to deliver a priori confidence that training an ASI will go well.Sequent · Import AI supports → Frontier AI labs' alignment methods are essentially reactive and functional but do not yield principled insight into if or when they will fail, unlike the portfolio of theory-driven bets Sequent intends to pursue.Sequent · Import AI