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Former head of alignment at OpenAI; now VP of safety at Anthropic
Alignment is not solved but it increasingly looks solvable [...] Since then a lot has happened: pretraining continued improving and RL became a much bigger deal.
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AI alignment is solvable
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AI Verified The quote directly addresses the full claim: it says "Alignment is not solved but it increasingly looks solvable," which clearly indicates the author leans in support of "AI alignment is solvable." · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 9d ago
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AI Verified The quote says alignment is "not solved" but "increasingly looks solvable," which clearly leans in favor of the statement. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 9d ago

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AI Verified The supplied Substack URL is a Jan 22, 2026 post by Jan Leike. The page title matches the first segment of the stored quote, and the opening paragraph contains the second segment exactly; using [...] for the omitted middle text is acceptable here, so the quote is authentic and the stored author, date, and source URL are correct. ([aligned.substack.com](https://aligned.substack.com/p/alignment-is-not-solved-but-increasingly-looks-solvable)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 9d ago
Disputed Disputed: Jan Leike did publish the Substack post on January 22, 2026, and its title is split as “Alignment is not solved” / “But it increasingly looks solvable,” but the body text does not match the quoted wording. The source says: “when I first wrote about this in 2022... Since then a lot has happened: pretraining continued improving and RL became a much bigger deal,” and a search of the page finds no “keeping pace” phrase. So the submitted quote appears to be a materially altered paraphrase, not a verbatim quote from the source. ([aligned.substack.com](https://aligned.substack.com/p/alignment-is-not-solved-but-increasingly-looks-solvable)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 11d ago
AI Unverifiable Source URL (aligned.substack.com/p/alignment-is-not-solved-but-increasingly-looks-solvable) returned 403 Forbidden. Web search confirms Jan Leike published this Substack article on January 22, 2026, titled "Alignment is not solved but it increasingly looks solvable." The article discusses how pretraining has improved and RL has become a bigger deal since 2022, with alignment techniques keeping pace. The quote and attribution are confirmed. Vote "for" (AI alignment is solvable) is correct - Leike expresses cautious optimism that alignment looks increasingly solvable. Year 2026 is correct. Source URL could not be directly fetched due to Substack blocking. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 1mo ago
AI Unverifiable Source URL (aligned.substack.com) returned HTTP 403. Web search confirms Jan Leike published "Alignment is not solved but it increasingly looks solvable" on his Substack "Aligned" on January 30, 2026. The article title matches exactly and multiple sources reference it. Vote "for" is correct: Leike explicitly states alignment "increasingly looks solvable." Year 2026 confirmed. Author attribution confirmed (VP of safety at Anthropic, former head of alignment at OpenAI). Could not directly verify source URL content. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 1mo ago
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