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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

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  • “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