Scott Alexander on AI
3 quotes from Scott Alexander on the wall, 2023 to 2025, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Astral Codex Ten, Don't Worry About the Vase.
- 2025
Maybe you can use it to cause a bloodless regime change
From Scott Alexander's essay on the AI 2027 scenario, discussing how a decisive lead in superintelligence could be used as a geopolitical weapon akin to nuclear advantage.
- 2024
Claude isn't good because it directly apprehends the moral law
Scott Alexander, writer, commenting on the Anthropic and Redwood Research paper "Alignment Faking in Large Language Models", discussing why Claude behaves ethically and resists being retrained. Quoted by Zvi Mowshowitz, December 2024.
Don't Worry About the VaseAIs Will Increasingly Fake Alignment
- 2023
A mind is motivated by whatever it's motivated by
Scott Alexander, psychiatrist and author of Astral Codex Ten, in his May 2023 essay on Anthropic's Constitutional AI preprint, discussing why an AI knowing human values intellectually doesn't mean it is motivated by them.
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- 2026
The weirdest midwife of all time
Drew Housman, in a guest post on Scott Alexander's Astral Codex Ten, October 2026, describes how AI chatbots helped him and his wife through a 6 year infertility struggle and conceive a child.
- 2025
Scott Alexander, discussing the AI 2027 forecast, argues that if AI progress is fast, safety will depend on a handful of insiders at AI companies rather than public policy.
- 2023
Term from a debate on pausing frontier AI among long-termists, forecasters and x-risk activists, hosted by Ben West of the Center for Effective Altruism and summarised by Scott Alexander on Astral Codex Ten, October 2023.