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Yudkowsky outlines five theses behind the advanced-AI alignment problem

Eliezer Yudkowsky argued that intelligence explosion, orthogonal goals, convergent instrumental strategies, fragile human values, and unstable self-modification make advanced AI alignment a distinct and strategically urgent control problem.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM68confidence 95/100

Why it moved the index

The direct DoomBench nexus is loss of human control over recursively improving systems with goals that need not track human values and with incentives to preserve their objectives and acquire resources. Magnitude 68 reflects a foundational synthesis of several takeover-risk mechanisms, not an observed incident. Confidence 95 reflects the explicitly dated first-person primary article, with uncertainty limited to its theoretical claims.

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 68 · confidence 95

    Initial historical evidence record from the author's explicitly dated primary synthesis of alignment-risk mechanisms.

    14 Sept 2026

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  1. DoomBench assesses “Yudkowsky outlines five theses behind the advanced-AI alignment problem” as evidence moving toward doom, with magnitude 68 and confidence 95 out of 100 in the safety and alignment category.

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  3. DoomBench summarizes “Yudkowsky outlines five theses behind the advanced-AI alignment problem” as follows: Eliezer Yudkowsky argued that intelligence explosion, orthogonal goals, convergent instrumental strategies, fragile human values,...

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