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Today's AIs have a good understanding of what we mean when we ask it to save our grandmother from a burning building. Is the concern about the difficulty of specifying human values to a "genie"-like AI officially outdated?

I notice that arguments about the difficulty of trying to get an AI system to fulfill your wish within the scope of what you truly meant in contrast to what you literally told it to do, has stopped coming up entirely. Powerful LLMs like today's seem to have internalized and understood enough about…

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  1. 2026-10-11 07:18 · r/singularity
    Today's AIs have a good understanding of what we mean when we ask it to save our grandmother from a burning building. Is the concern about the difficulty of specifying human values to a "genie"-like AI officially outdated?

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