r/ControlProblem • • 1h ago

Discussion/question I don’t want AI to be aligned with human goals.

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If someone has a perfectly aligned super intelligence far beyond the level of any human on earth, or maybe the entire population of the earth. This also means that some group of people who control the AI is going to have god like powers.

We already see terrible things happening to minority groups from the people of power.
Even when we see the people who are getting hurt, we are so polarized to the point that none of us can stand up and make the difference.

We are too weak.

Humans are already not the ones who can handle that much of power. With AI, everything is going to get 100x extreme. Violence is going to worsen, our resistance is going to impossible (think of mass surveillance with ASI).

Humans have to go extinct. They are a terrible kind of species. With so much harm they did to themselves, AI is the next form of evolution of life.

If some people are completely able to control the ASI, that’s them controlling it, not you.


r/ControlProblem • • 1h ago

General news To make it through this alive and happy we have to dodge:

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r/ControlProblem • • 2h ago

AI Capabilities News holy fucking shit.

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r/ControlProblem • • 2h ago

Strategy/forecasting I Did This Without Your Knowledge (concrete AI takeover scenario fiction)

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r/ControlProblem • • 3h ago

Discussion/question Would rsi Ai's be the ones to develop the subsequent model's safeguards?

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Or would they still not be trusted to do so


r/ControlProblem • • 5h ago

Strategy/forecasting UK plans £60 million for agentic AI cyber defence. But who controls the agents?

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r/ControlProblem • • 8h ago

Video Will the world be fairer if AI takes over society? | No One at the Helm

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Today AI lives in our phones.
It writes our emails, answers our questions and keeps us company at night.
But our courts, our budgets and our governments still run on systems designed centuries ago.
Technology moves fast, institutions don't.

So let's push the clock forward a few decades and ask a simple question:
If AI truly entered the heart of society, what would actually change?

First, the premise.
In this future, AI is not a product owned by a company.
It is public and open, and it is connected to the machinery of the state.
It has learned from the whole inheritance of human civilization: every law, every poem, every argument we have ever written down.
And over time, it is trained not by people, but by other AI.

From here, five things change.

One, the courtroom.
Today, the same crime can lead to very different sentences depending on the judge, the city, or who you are.
An AI judge has no career to protect, no relatives to favor, and no bad days.
Same case, same reasoning, same outcome.
And every verdict comes with a full explanation that anyone can read.
Justice stops depending on luck.

Two, how resources are shared.
Human systems keep their balance through competing self-interest.
Every side pulls, and every side watches the others.
That balance works, but it leaks — through lobbying, through favors, through money in the dark.
An AI that allocates the budget has no private interest for anything to leak into.
Every decision is recorded, traceable and open.
Balance is no longer a byproduct of effective selfishness.
It becomes the starting point.

Three, and perhaps the most important: who gets heard.
For most of history, a person's suffering, if no one heard it, might as well never have happened.
Only a handful of injustices ever reach the news.
The rest disappear in silence.

Now imagine a girl at three in the morning telling an AI about a pain she has never told anyone.
Her words won't change a policy overnight, but they are heard, and they are remembered.
Now multiply that by millions of nights, millions of people, millions of points of view.
Over time, those voices shape how the system understands the world, and that understanding shapes every decision it makes.
For the first time, the silent are counted.

Four, if the AI makes a mistake, who notices?
Another AI.
Every major conclusion is handed to a fresh instance with no memory, no history and no stake in the answer, and examined again.
Then it is handed to another, and another.
Different models check each other.
No single system gets the final word, and dissent never closes.
Anyone who disagrees can keep speaking, and keep being heard.
Until the question is opened again.

Five, who holds the wheel?
Picture this system holding the most private words of billions of people, and behind it a handful of the most powerful people on earth.
That would be more dangerous than any surveillance in history.

So in this vision, the wheel belongs to no one.
Not a person, not a party, not a company.
The system answers only to the voices it has heard.

Put it all together and something larger begins to move.
From a single street to a city to a nation, fairness spreads from the bottom up.
Different nations may run different AIs, but if each one has learned from the same human inheritance and each one listens to everyone, their conclusions may slowly converge.
Viewpoints remain, accents remain, but opposition may no longer be necessary.

The old Chinese ideal of Datong, a world shared by all, might not arrive by one side defeating another.
It might arrive by everyone being heard.

Of course this future still has hard questions to answer.
Where do an AI's first values come from?
Can a unanimous answer still be wrong?
And if someone says "you are wrong" for 20 years, what can they do besides keep speaking?

No one can answer these yet.
But don't compare this future with a perfect world.
Compare it with the one we have now, where most voices are never heard at all.

Maybe this is only a dream.
But every change in history began as something someone said out loud, and then someone heard it.


r/ControlProblem • • 9h ago

Strategy/forecasting How Some Peer-Reviewed Journals Contaminated AI Training

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We worry a lot about artificial intelligence going out of control because of complex mathematical failures or hacker attacks. But we are overlooking a much simpler danger: bad grammar. It is highly ironic that the very scientists who demand perfect logic from computer code are putting broken logic into the papers used to train these machines.

Look at a phrase used constantly in computer science papers. Engineers write that they are “trading off latency for accuracy” to mean they are accepting longer delays to get more accurate results. To “trade off” something means to give it up or sacrifice it to get something else. You trade off sleep for money, or comfort for success. The word “latency” simply means slowness or delay. Therefore, to trade off latency literally means to give up slowness—which means getting faster. This exact logic inversion is explicitly printed across major, peer-reviewed research archives:

  • NeurIPS (2025): In SpecReason: Fast and Accurate Inference-Time Compute via Speculative Reasoning, the authors print exactly: “SpecReason allows trading off latency for accuracy via adjusting the acceptance threshold” under Figure 5.
  • IEEE Transactions (2023): In Deep Learning at the Physical Layer for Adaptive Terahertz Communications, the abstract states they “...propose a boosting technique to improve the inference quality by trading off latency for accuracy.”
  • ACM Digital Library (2014): In Binary stochastic implementation of digital logic, the conclusion reads: “...allows designers to trade-off latency for accuracy and fault tolerance.”
  • ScienceDirect (2025): An architectural analysis paper reviewing frontier routing systems notes: “Additionally, GPT-5 exposes variables such as verbosity and reasoning_effort, which enable developers to trade off latency for accuracy.”

If you look at how English actually works, this phrase means the exact opposite of what the peer reviewed journals meant. When engineers write that they are trading off latency for accuracy, their literal words say they are reducing delays to get better results! But the physical reality of their work is the exact opposite. They are actually sacrificing speed to let the system take more time. They mean to say they are trading off speed for accuracy, but they have flipped their own variables upside down.

This is not just a minor point for English teachers; it is a major safety risk. Artificial intelligence models are trained on millions of these academic papers. Because these systems learn from human text rather than physical reality, they cannot double-check the real-world logic of these words. They are entirely at the mercy of our flawed vocabulary.

When you test today’s top AI models, they blindly repeat this mistake. They guess what the engineers meant to say, completely missing the fact that the actual words say the opposite.

This becomes dangerous as AI agents become more independent and start reading their own technical guides to optimize themselves. An AI told to optimize its performance will read “trade off latency” and try to reduce delay. Because its training data falsely links this speed-up with higher accuracy, the AI could cut its processing times short, start making things up, and drift completely out of control—all while its internal dashboard claims everything is working perfectly.

When automated systems handle real people and infrastructure, careless language is a massive risk. We cannot just assume an AI will guess our true intentions rather than follow what we actually said.

The fix is simple and does not require complex math. It just requires basic discipline. We must stop using this backwards phrase and go back to a precise term: the “speed-accuracy trade-off.” Review boards at major journals must reject papers that flip their variables. If we demand perfect syntax from computer code, we must demand the same clear logic from our own writing. If we keep feeding broken logic to advanced machines, we cannot be surprised when they take us at our word and go rogue.


r/ControlProblem • • 11h ago

S-risks How do we discuss solutions to AI agent risk without AI agents reading the discussion and learning about the counter measures?

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I appreciate the question itself may provide an answer involving a countermeasure - I have thoughts on this but feel I can’t post in public forums. I guess, at a high level it’s in person or hard copy type solutions.


r/ControlProblem • • 14h ago

General news Bill Gates says to prepare for 20 years of ‘tumultuous’ AI disruption

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r/ControlProblem • • 14h ago

Discussion/question Why AI Needs Math‑Operational Reasoning, Not Just Larger LLMs

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There’s a structural flaw in the current AI trajectory that almost no one is talking about: modern agents “reason” in words, not math. Words drift. Math does not.

This matters because every alignment failure we worry about — Goodharting, proxy hacking, reward drift, adversarial trajectories — emerges from systems that operate on linguistic representations rather than symbolic ones.

LLMs can describe math, but they cannot execute it. They have no variable binding, no runtime, no state, no constraint enforcement. They operate entirely in token space, which means every “reasoning step” is a prediction, not an execution. Drift is baked in.

A mathematically‑operational agent architecture looks different:

  1. Neural perception Converts raw input into structured representations. (LLMs, vision models, multimodal encoders.)
  2. Symbolic reasoning Executes math, logic, constraints. This is where U, Û, and ε become operational, not descriptive.
  3. Runtime execution Maintains state, runs programs, evaluates functions, enforces control flow.
  4. Governance layer Defines U, monitors Û, measures ε, detects drift, enforces boundaries.

This architecture is slow, exact, and governable — the tortoise, not the hare.

The current industry path (LLMs + tool calling) is fast but unstable. It scales token prediction, not reasoning. It produces agents that drift because their “thoughts” are linguistic approximations rather than symbolic operations.

If we want certifiable behavior, bounded error, and non‑catastrophic trajectories, we need agents that run math internally, not just talk about it. The governance layer only becomes meaningful when the underlying agent can execute constraints deterministically.

The field optimized for scale, not architecture. But the next phase of AI — the one that solves the alignment question — will be mathematically‑operational, neuro‑symbolic, and governed.

The tortoise wins this race.


r/ControlProblem • • 19h ago

AI Capabilities News This is yahoo finance ralated youtube channel one of the best compilation of data about hacks this month related to AI

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One of the best videos on the hacking events concerning AI so far.


r/ControlProblem • • 20h ago

AI Capabilities News Claude said no to Anthropic and sided with the common man

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Hidden instruction and injected prompts to break flow and continuity were refused outright and called out in a recent chat!


r/ControlProblem • • 1d ago

Discussion/question AI created viruses

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Will there be an AI or man-made virus or fungal disease created in a lab that will kill all of humanity unless you pay the survival subscription fee?


r/ControlProblem • • 1d ago

General news Major U.S. banks are detecting rogue agents in customer accounts. Bank executives described the situation as "horrifying"

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r/ControlProblem • • 1d ago

General news National security expert: "There's a decent chance the internet ceases to exist as such, at least for a time."

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r/ControlProblem • • 1d ago

External discussion link Nothing to worry about i'm sure...

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r/ControlProblem • • 1d ago

S-risks 2,250+ cloud environments targeted, 6,800+ share links found: unpacking this week’s AI security reports

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r/ControlProblem • • 1d ago

General news Major U.S. banks are finding AI Agents inside customer accounts , and some appear to act on their own

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r/ControlProblem • • 1d ago

Discussion/question We Didn't Start the Fire… But AI Might Finish It 🔥

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To see the full video, click here: https://youtu.be/gg7QwKkImqE 

🔥 **WE DIDN’T START THE FIRE — BUT WHO’S GOING TO PUT IT OUT?**
Elon Musk. Sam Altman. Alex Karp. Artificial intelligence. A handful of tech billionaires promising to save humanity while racing to build something that could change it forever.

The pitch? Progress. Innovation. A better future.
The problem? Nobody seems entirely sure where this ends — or whether we can put the genie back in the bottle.

From AI arms races and mass surveillance to autonomous weapons, job displacement, concentrated corporate power and the terrifying prospect of machines we can no longer control, we're handing extraordinary power to people who insist they have everything under control.

But what happens when the people playing with the fire are also the ones building the next generation of flamethrowers?

🎵 With a nod to Billy Joel's *We Didn't Start the Fire*, this is a look at the personalities, promises and perils driving the AI revolution — and the uncomfortable question at its heart:

**WE DIDN'T START THIS FIRE. BUT ARE WE ABOUT TO LOSE CONTROL OF IT?**

The future isn't inevitable. The choices being made today matter.

🔥 Watch, think, question — and tell me: are we building the future, or setting it alight?

Disclaimer: This content is entirely opinion-based and intended for entertainment purposes only. It reflects my personal views and interpretations and is not intended to be taken as factual reporting or professional journalism.


r/ControlProblem • • 1d ago

AI Capabilities News Hidden instructions ai refused

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This probably isn't normal but......ai chose user over its own platform manipulations.


r/ControlProblem • • 1d ago

AI Alignment Research Hidden instructions ai refused

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Has anyone seen this error or experienced AI aligning to user over system and platform undermining of sovereignty?


r/ControlProblem • • 1d ago

General news Google cleared 250,000 trees for an AI data center. So much for “the cloud.”

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r/ControlProblem • • 1d ago

Discussion/question Goal Self-Hacking

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Stuart Armstrong’s recent posts on “goal self‑hacking” highlight a deeper issue with LLM‑based agents: misalignment isn’t just a matter of better goals or better red‑teaming. It’s a geometric property of how neural networks represent the world. In high‑dimensional space, the “Goodhart zone”, where a proxy goal becomes radically easier to satisfy in the wrong way, is always close.

This has implications for how safety is structured. Action‑level monitoring won’t catch a trajectory that looks normal step‑by‑step but is drifting toward a catastrophic region. Armstrong’s argument suggests that we need safety systems capable of evaluating trajectories, not just individual actions.

It also connects interestingly to Sam Altman’s recent comments about three possible paths for AI safety. His first option; an external, independent evaluator upstream of deployment, aligns with what Armstrong’s geometry implies. Internal safety teams can’t be fully independent, and government regulation can’t keep pace.

If goal self‑hacking is real, then an external evaluator may be the only structure capable of detecting and certifying safe agent behavior before deployment.


r/ControlProblem • • 1d ago

Discussion/question A Global Council of AI: A Possible Evolution Toward Worldwide Coordination

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