Person
Jacob Steinhardt
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.
“Steinhardt (2023) outlines a number of reasons to expect LLMs to use these skills to optimize for achieving specific outcomes, and surveys cases in which existing LLMs adopt goal-directed “personas”.”
· The Alignment Problem from a Deep Learning Perspective · machine-resolved
“McCandlish, Luke Muehlhauser, Richard Ngo, David Roodman, Rohin Shah, Carl Shulman, Nate Soares, Jacob Steinhardt, and Eliezer Yudkowsky for input on the longer report on which this essay is based; thanks to Leopold”
· Existential Risk from Power-Seeking AI · machine-resolved