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Belrose and Pope's essay of November 2023 argues that AI, even superhuman AI, will remain much more controllable than humans for the foreseeable future, and that it will be easy to instill human values into an AI. Copy claim link
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Date 2023-11-28 · publication Records dated 2023 → Role Contesting Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Engagement Engages a premise. It disputes the premise that training cannot reliably shape a system's goals, arguing that white-box access and gradient descent give fine-grained control of values. Scope and limits The essay states that it does not directly address the arguments it disputes and defers them to a later document.
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AI is easy to control ↗ AI Optimism (optimists.ai) · 2023-11-28
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Source excerpt “we also argue it will be easy to instill our values into an AI, a process called "alignment." Location in source Introduction
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Source details and check notes Authors Nora Belrose; Quintin Pope Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 ebe2a9bfc1eaffeefb19ec191f3db1dfa9276ec09cb2bc20257fd46dafd3da5c). current optimists.ai page, address dated 2023/11/28, datePublished 2023-11-29T02:38 UTC in the page metadata; later edits not checked. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31; the bytes differ, and the check compared the quoted passages. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution Nora Belrose, Quintin Pope, “AI is easy to control”, 2023-11-28. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (18 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
AI is easy to control ↗ AI Optimism (optimists.ai) · 2023-11-28
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Source excerpt “we will argue that AI, even superhuman AI, will remain much more controllable than humans for the foreseeable future” Location in source Introduction
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Source details and check notes Authors Nora Belrose; Quintin Pope Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 ebe2a9bfc1eaffeefb19ec191f3db1dfa9276ec09cb2bc20257fd46dafd3da5c). current optimists.ai page, address dated 2023/11/28, datePublished 2023-11-29T02:38 UTC in the page metadata; later edits not checked. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31; the bytes differ, and the check compared the quoted passages. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution Nora Belrose, Quintin Pope, “AI is easy to control”, 2023-11-28. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (19 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
AI is easy to control ↗ AI Optimism (optimists.ai) · 2023-11-28
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Source excerpt “AIs implemented using artificial neural networks (ANN) are white boxes in the sense that we have full read and write access to their internals” Location in source Section "Current AI alignment methods are white box"
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Source details and check notes Authors Nora Belrose; Quintin Pope Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 ebe2a9bfc1eaffeefb19ec191f3db1dfa9276ec09cb2bc20257fd46dafd3da5c). current optimists.ai page, address dated 2023/11/28, datePublished 2023-11-29T02:38 UTC in the page metadata; later edits not checked. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31; the bytes differ, and the check compared the quoted passages. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution Nora Belrose, Quintin Pope, “AI is easy to control”, 2023-11-28. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (24 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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