Comment by Ryan Greenblatt

Chief Scientist at Redwood Research; AI safety researcher; lead author of "Alignment faking in large language models"
Plan A seems like a good plan for handling powerful AI, or at least the best plan anyone’s written up. Many choices initially seem crazy, but are actually pretty carefully considered. Plan A isn’t likely to happen, but pushing for something like this seems worthwhile.
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AI Verified Greenblatt calls Plan A the best available plan; source identifies MACD as a Plan A element. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago
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AI Verified Greenblatt calls Plan A the best available plan; MACD is a Plan A element: for. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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