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Back to Episodes“Community Polls on Alignment Controversies II” by Jasmine Brazilek, Miles Tidmarsh, Jonah Woodward
Description
Please spend <5 minutes filling in the below polls on AI alignment!
Thank you to everyone who filled out last month's polls. It was great to see 60+ comments engaging with these issues.
This month's survey has already been taken by a panel of 15 alignment researchers, including Scott Alexander (ACX), David Manheim (ALTER), Jeff Sebo (NYU), and Tobias Baumann (CRS). We'll compare panel and community responses in an upcoming report, which we'll publish here and on LessWrong. To get notified when it's released, you can subscribe to our new Substack.
Many people we've talked to have very different intuitions about where the alignment community stands on the below issues. We hope that your responses to these polls, and the resulting report, will help map core areas of (dis)agreement within the field, and ground CaML's research agenda.
A few final things about the polls themselves:
- Timeframe: unless a statement says otherwise (e.g. post-AGI), read forward-looking claims as being about roughly the next 2 years.
- We're not trying to find the 'right' answers. Please answer based on your own best guess.
- % agree is your % credence in a given position
- Please let us know if you think the [...]
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First published:
July 30th, 2026
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