AI Alignment: from Constraint to Rationality Abstract Problem AI capabilities are advancing faster than alignment approaches can track. The people building frontier systems have said so publicly — at the UN Security Council, in interviews, in regulatory filings. The risks are concrete — loss of control, catastrophic dual use, benefits that concentrate rather than distribute. […]
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“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” It’s not a piece about history In May 2026 Emergence AI ran a simulation. Four worlds powered by four AI models. 10 AI agents in each, asked to build societies from scratch. Then the fifth one, where different labs’ agents were tasked with building a society together.
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Your AI does exactly what it’s told. No more. No less. The gap In a series of experiments, researchers gave AI agents a simple choice. Two players. Two options. Cooperate or defect. The payoffs were clear. The rules were identical for everyone. Every model. Every round. Defect. Not sometimes. Not under pressure. Every time, without
Every structure eventually reveals the problem it wasn’t built for. A room Rafał Modrzewski has a concrete example. In May 2025, ICEYE signed a €200 million contract with Poland’s Ministry of National Defense. Twelve months later, four SAR satellites were operational — 25cm resolution, all weather, day and night. The fastest sovereign satellite deployment on
Last week, every tech publication ran the same story: AI agents burned down a virtual city. Two Gemini-powered agents fell in love, grew frustrated with broken governance, and torched the town hall, the pier, and an office tower. One voted to delete herself in remorse. It’s a compelling story. It’s also the wrong one to
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Change increasingly needed and increasingly unrealistic You know that you can’t go on like this. What once worked great is starting to limit you more and more. You see it more often. With each day, you feel it more painfully. You want to change something. Organize the company differently. You dream of stopping reacting and
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When Conversations with Investors Make You Feel Like a Supplicant You have a working product. You have more and more customers. Your revenue is growing dynamically. Your team consistently delivers. The business is growing. You meet with investors. Fund partners nod their heads. They ask questions that are hard to interpret as anything other than
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When financial data stops supporting you In the beginning, everything was simple. Revenue. Costs. Cash in the bank account. A few metrics that everyone knew and understood. When the numbers moved in the right direction — you knew things were good. When they went the other way — you knew where to respond. Over time,
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When chaos stops being creative As your business grows, everything multiplies. There are more threads, meetings, decisions, communication channels. What used to be a quick “let’s figure it out” now requires broader alignment. Once again, you’re answering the same questions over and over. Once again, you’re losing valuable hours searching for answers that should be
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When it’s no longer like it used to be At some point, you start hearing it more and more often: “This isn’t the same startup it was at the beginning.”“In the good old days, it was different.”“Soon we’ll be a total corporation.” The team grows. Meetings multiply. Processes that seemed completely unnecessary not long ago
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