{"id":7798,"date":"2026-02-12T22:05:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=7798"},"modified":"2026-02-12T22:05:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:05:01","slug":"opinion-now-that-its-been-unleashed-can-a-i-be-controlled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=7798","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Now That It\u2019s Been Unleashed, Can A.I. Be Controlled?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">Tell me if I\u2019m wrong about this. A world that has multiplying A.I. agents working on behalf of people, millions upon millions, who are being given access to bank accounts, email accounts, passwords and so on, you\u2019re just going to have essentially some kind of misalignment, and a bunch of A.I. are going to decide \u2014 \u201cDecide\u201d might be the wrong word, but they\u2019re going to talk themselves into taking down the power grid on the West Coast or something. &#8211; Won\u2019t that happen? &#8211; Yeah, I think there are definitely going to be things that go wrong, particularly if we go quickly. So I don\u2019t know. This is one area where people have had just very different intuitions. There are some people in the field who say, look, we program these A.I. models. We make them, like, we just tell them to follow human instructions and they\u2019ll follow human instructions. Your Roomba vacuum cleaner doesn\u2019t go off and start shooting people. Like, why \u2014 why is an A.I. system going to do it? That\u2019s one intuition. And some people are so convinced of that. And then the other intuition is like, we basically, we train these things, they\u2019re just going to seek power. It\u2019s like \u201cThe Sorcerer\u2019s Apprentice.\u201d How could you possibly imagine that, like, they\u2019re not going to \u2014 they\u2019re a new species. How can you imagine that they\u2019re not going to take over. And my intuition is somewhere in the middle, which is that, look, these \u2014 you can\u2019t just have these things do exactly what you want to do. They\u2019re more like growing a biological organism. But there is a science of how to control them. Like, early in our training, these things are often unpredictable. And then we shape them. We address problems one by one. So I have more of a, not a fatalistic view that these things are uncontrollable. This is a complex engineering problem. And I think something will go wrong with someone\u2019s A.I. system, hopefully not ours. 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