Craig A. Kaplan on AI poses an existential threat to human…

Craig A. Kaplan

Founder of iQ Company and author of AI safety research on safe superintelligence.

It is impossible to know exactly what will happen once an Advanced Autonomous Artificial Intelligence, the customized AI agent I refer to as AAAI, sets its own goals and begins to think far faster than the people who built it. No architecture, including this one, can guarantee that such a system stays perfectly aligned with human values under those conditions.

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Craig A. Kaplan, “The Honest Limits of AI Safety and Alignment,” June 24, 2026.

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AI Verified Kaplan says autonomous AI that sets goals and outthinks creators cannot be guaranteed aligned, strongly indicating existential-risk concern. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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