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Leike's post of December 2022 argues that developments of recent years have made AI systems more favourable to alignment than they looked initially, and that a more modest goal, aligning a system able to make more alignment progress than humans, is within reach of OpenAI's approach. Copy claim link
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Date 2022-12-05 · publication Records dated 2022 → Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element Argues that aligning a system able to do alignment research is tractable with a deliberate research programme; does not hold that alignment is easy or will be solved by default. Scope and limits The post argues for a deliberate research programme, not that alignment will be solved by default; it states that a once-and-for-all solution could be very difficult and that success on easy mode might still fail on hard mode.
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Why I'm optimistic about our alignment approach ↗ Musings on the Alignment Problem (aligned.substack.com), the author's newsletter · 2022-12-05
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Source excerpt “A lot of developments over the last few years have made AI systems more favorable to alignment than they looked initially” Location in source Summary of the five sources
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Source details and check notes Authors Jan Leike Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 2717984f32c8817f752d65e183dc8bf8ab6bdf286d7fcc7c698e17aca78569e0). Current page as served on 2026-10-29; dated 5 December 2022 on the page. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution Jan Leike, “Why I'm optimistic about our alignment approach”, 2022-12-05. 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 (21 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
Why I'm optimistic about our alignment approach ↗ Musings on the Alignment Problem (aligned.substack.com), the author's newsletter · 2022-12-05
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Source excerpt “We're just trying to align a system that's capable enough to make more alignment progress than we can.” Location in source Summary of the five sources
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Source details and check notes Authors Jan Leike Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 2717984f32c8817f752d65e183dc8bf8ab6bdf286d7fcc7c698e17aca78569e0). Current page as served on 2026-10-29; dated 5 December 2022 on the page. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution Jan Leike, “Why I'm optimistic about our alignment approach”, 2022-12-05. 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 Context only
Why I'm optimistic about our alignment approach ↗ Musings on the Alignment Problem (aligned.substack.com), the author's newsletter · 2022-12-05
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Source excerpt “Finding this once-and-for-all solution could be very difficult, and we don't really know how to do this.” Location in source Section 2, "A more modest goal"
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Source details and check notes Authors Jan Leike Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 2717984f32c8817f752d65e183dc8bf8ab6bdf286d7fcc7c698e17aca78569e0). Current page as served on 2026-10-29; dated 5 December 2022 on the page. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution Jan Leike, “Why I'm optimistic about our alignment approach”, 2022-12-05. 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 (17 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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