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Knowledge Extraction Plan (KEP): An alternative to reckless scaling

Alignment Research Community, My name is Akshay Swani. I recently graduated from Princeton University (Class of 2025) and while I'm not within the alignment community myself, I have been following the AGI/ASI alignment and containment crisis for the past year or so and have written a 20-page memo describing the...

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aswani

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Knowledge Extraction Plan (KEP): An alternative to reckless scaling

Jun 23, 2025•1

aswani

8mo

Knowledge Extraction Plan (KEP): An alternative to reckless scaling

aswani

8mo

Alignment Research Community,

My name is Akshay Swani. I recently graduated from Princeton University (Class of 2025) and while I'm not within the alignment community myself, I have been following the AGI/ASI alignment and containment crisis for the past year or so and have written a 20-page memo describing the situation that I think captures what's happening nicely for non-technical outsiders like myself (and may even be helpful for some with a technical education). The memo is titled, Alignment and Containment in Artificial Intelligence: An Urgent Public Policy and National Security Issue.

At the end of the memo I propose a Knowledge Extraction Plan (KEP) as a 21st Century Manhattan Project and an alternative... (read 227 more words →)