Making Sense with Sam Harris
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Sam Harris
#494 — A Coin Toss for the Future
1 hour 32 minutes Posted Sep 24, 2026 at 9:33 pm.
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Sam Harris speaks with Ryan Greenblatt about AI misalignment and the risk of losing control of increasingly capable systems. They discuss the Hugging Face incident, the spectrum of concern about AI risk, why companies are racing ahead despite high odds of a, reward hacking, the distinction between alignment and control, the danger of AIs reasoning in "neuralese," alignment faking, how an AI takeover might unfold, and other topics. 

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