Person
Ajeya Cotra
Cited in ten posts, among them Existential Risk from Power-Seeking AI and The Alignment Problem from a Deep Learning…, since September 2026
Where they come up
Said by someone else — these sentences name them.
“Over time, we expect the most capable policies to become better at identifying which abstract knowledge is relevant to the policies themselves and to the context in which they’re being run, and applying that knowledge when choosing actions: a skill which Cotra (2022) calls situational awareness (or self-reasoning ).”
· The Alignment Problem from a Deep Learning Perspective · machine-resolved
“See also Cotra (2021) on the ‘training game’.”
· Existential Risk from Power-Seeking AI · machine-resolved
In the claim ledger
1 promoted claim about them. Assessments are the model’s knowledge, not verification.
Situational awareness is instrumentally required for strong real-world task performance, so capable policies will acquire it.
consistent · The Alignment Problem from a Deep Learning Perspective