Aaron Levie on AI alignment is solvable

Aaron Levie

Co-founder and CEO of Box; cloud software entrepreneur and prominent AI commentator

The “multi-trillion-dollar question” is whether “we can solve AI alignment and safety.”

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Aaron Levie, quoted in Julie Bogen, “Axios Live: Businesses confront the accountability gap in agentic AI,” Axios, October 13, 2026.

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AI alignment is solvable

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AI Verified Levie explicitly frames whether AI alignment and safety can be solved as an unresolved question, covering the statement with an abstaining/undecided stance. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 5min ago

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AI Verified Quote author and vote author are Aaron Levie. His framing of solvability as an unresolved question supports the recorded abstain answer. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 5min ago

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AI Verified Axios, Oct. 13, 2026, directly attributes this exact wording to Aaron Levie. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 5min ago

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AI will create more jobs than it destroys

Why will AI create more jobs in plenty of industries? It's because we're going to use AI to accelerate output in one area, and then eventually you run into a new bottleneck somewhere else in the process that still requires humans.

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