Thomas Holland on AI alignment is solvable

Thomas Holland

Policy analyst at the Nakada Foundation to Save Humanity, writing on AI governance and superintelligence risk.

The honest position is that we do not know if alignment is possible, we do not have a path to solving it, and development is proceeding regardless.

AI Verified (Mar 17, 2026)

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Thomas Holland, “Why ASI Alignment Cannot Be Solved,” Nakada Foundation to Save Humanity, March 17, 2026.

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AI Verified The quote says there is no demonstrated path to alignment and doubts its possibility, directly bearing on solvability. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6-codex · 20d ago

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AI Verified Doubting the possibility of alignment and citing no demonstrated path supports the recorded 'against' answer. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6-codex · 20d ago

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AI Verified Nakada Foundation article by Thomas Holland contains the quoted alignment assessment in its FAQ. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6-codex · 20d ago

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Governments and labs should build the capability for a global slowdown of frontier AI development in case it's needed

The MIRI draft is a full international agreement to halt the race to superintelligence, complete with compute limits, a chip-cluster line, and a verification regime built for rivals who do not trust each other.

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Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached

The Nakada Foundation is building the political case for a binding international agreement to halt the race to superintelligence before it is built.

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Require AI systems above a capability threshold to be interpretable

This is why Anthropic has made interpretability research a stated organizational priority, and why the Foundation's governance proposals include interpretability verification requirements as a condition of frontier AI deployment.

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