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31 Jul 2026

Personally, I find it super exciting. That's exactly why we're trying to empirically study the emergence of the risks that we're worried about, because the theoretical arguments, they basically just tell you asymptotically, at some point, you should expect this to happen.

“Personally, I find it super exciting. That's exactly why we're trying to empirically study the emergence of the risks that we're worried about, because the theoretical arguments, they basically just tell you asymptotically, at some point, you should expect this to happen.”

Speaker: Alexander Meinke
Episode: How Researchers Test AI for Hidden Goals — Apollo Research
Publisher: Machine Learning Street Talk

What Alexander said.

Personally, I find it super exciting. That's exactly why we're trying to empirically study the emergence of the risks that we're worried about, because the theoretical arguments, they basically just tell you asymptotically, at some point, you should expect this to happen.