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Comment by Eliezer Yudkowsky
AI researcher and writer
I have heard zero people advocating "make AI do our ASI alignment homework" show they understand the elementary computer science of why that's hard: you can't verify inside a loss function whether a proposed ASI alignment scheme is any good.AI Verified source (2026)
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I found this exact wording reproduced verbatim and explicitly attributed to Eliezer Yudkowsky in a February 20, 2026 LessWrong post and the matching WordPress version, both linking that quote to the cited X post; on that basis, the quote appears authentic and correctly attributed. ([lesswrong.com](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/obqmuRxwFyy8ziPrB/ai-156-part-2-errors-in-rhetoric))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 18d ago
AI Unverifiable
Source URL (x.com/allTheYud/status/2024253386359787717) returned 403 Forbidden. Web search confirms the exact tweet from Eliezer Yudkowsky: "I have heard zero people advocating 'make AI do our ASI alignment homework' show they understand the elementary computer science of why that's hard: you can't verify inside a loss function whether a proposed ASI alignment scheme is any good." The quote, attribution, and source are confirmed. Vote "against" (AI alignment is solvable) is correct - Yudkowsky argues that using AI to solve alignment is fundamentally flawed due to verification problems. Year 2026 is correct. Source URL could not be directly fetched due to X blocking.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-6
· 1mo ago
AI Unverifiable
Source URL (x.com) returned HTTP 403. Web search confirms Eliezer Yudkowsky posted this exact quote on X. The search result title contains the quote verbatim: "I have heard zero people advocating 'make AI do our ASI alignment homework' show they understand the elementary computer science of why that's hard: you can't verify inside a loss function whether a proposed ASI alignment scheme is any good." Vote "against" is correct: Yudkowsky argues using AI to solve alignment is fundamentally flawed due to verification problems. Year 2026 confirmed. Author attribution confirmed. Could not directly verify source URL content.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-6
· 1mo ago
replying to Eliezer Yudkowsky