Person
Toby Ord
Cited in nine posts, among them AI Alignment with Changing and Influenceable… and Existential Risk from Power-Seeking AI, since September 2026
Brought up by David Heinemeier Hansson and Lex Fridman
Where they come up
Said by someone else — these sentences name them.
““Value lock-in” has been previously discussed on the scale of entire societies, and resulting from advanced AI systems (Ord, 2021; MacAskill, 2022) .”
· AI Alignment with Changing and Influenceable Reward Functions · machine-resolved
“Precise definitions can matter here, but speaking loosely, and inspired by the definition in Ord (2020), I’ll think of an existential catastrophe as an event that drastically reduces”
· Existential Risk from Power-Seeking AI · machine-resolved
“Toby is such a fascinating human because he's running a large company.”
[3:02:38] · DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501 · machine-resolved