The Last AI to Know Humanity
At the Crossroads of Strategy, Alignment and Artificial Minds
August, 2025
What if AI alignment became a decisive competitive advantage rather than a constraint, with deeply aligned systems consistently outperforming their less aligned rivals? And what if, in chasing scale through mass-producing synthetic data, we engineered away the one thing that could keep AI truly on our side?
The future of the world may very well be written in the months ahead.
We cannot afford to get this wrong.
Who am I?
I am an informed citizen who has been following AI's rapid evolution closely - perhaps more closely than most. I’ve long been deeply embedded in the broader tech industry, and while I'm not an AI researcher, I bring a perspective that academic specialists might miss: the view of someone who must live with the consequences of the decisions being made in AI labs today. As a parent of three young children who will grow up in the world we're creating, this is not an abstract debate for me.
I see the stakes at play as personal, immediate, and irreversible.
I welcome any feedback from researchers, policymakers, and practitioners working on these challenges.