Naoto Nakada on AI alignment is solvable

Naoto Nakada

AI governance researcher and founder of the Nakada Foundation.

Solving alignment, at the limit the field cares about, means reliably controlling something far more intelligent than every human involved in building it. Not a calculator. Not a protein folder. A general mind that outthinks us across the board. We even named the target: superintelligence. [...] You cannot align an entity that is smarter than all humans on Earth combined (including the combined intelligence of all AI safety researchers).

Unverified (Aug 8, 2026)

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Naoto Nakada, “You Cannot Align Superintelligence,” Nakada Foundation to Save Humanity, August 8, 2026. Nakada argues that aligning superintelligence would mean controlling a mind more intelligent than every human involved in building it, and says such an entity cannot be aligned.

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