Thorstad's paper of 7 June 2026 (arXiv v1) argues that the argument from power-seeking rests on a strong version of the instrumental convergence thesis and that none of the defences it examines (the paper calls them “leading defenses”), including the power-seeking theorems of Turner and colleagues, establishes it in a form strong enough to ground that argument.

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