Gabriel Alfour

Most people know AI as the technology behind chatbots like ChatGPT. However, what the top AI companies are explicitly aiming for is something else entirely: superintelligent AI. That means AI that can fully replace and outmatch humans at any task, including in domains like hacking, social engineering, and military operations....

Last week, the AI company Anthropic released a blog post titled “When AI builds itself”. This led to a media frenzy, with news outlets around the world publishing headlines that the company was urging a global pause on AI development, or calling for AI non-proliferation. However, the post does not...

ControlAI's mission is to avert the extinction risks posed by superintelligent AI. We believe that in order to do this, we must secure an international prohibition on its development. We're working to make this happen through what we believe is the most natural and promising approach: helping decision-makers in governments...

> How the flagship project of the AI Safety Community ended up helping AI Corporations. I care about preventing extinction risks from superintelligence. This de facto makes me part of the “AI Safety” community, a social cluster of people who care about these risks. In the community, a few organisations...

Hello, fellow knowledge enthusiast. Knowing things is hard, sharing our knowledge accurately is even harder, and it is all too easy to claim more knowledge than we have. Many, when confronted with this, fall back to Epistemic Humility. They err towards being under-confident. This is bad. I'll explain why here,...

I’m the originator behind ControlAI’s Direct Institutional Plan (the DIP), built to address extinction risks from superintelligence. My diagnosis is simple: most laypeople and policy makers have not heard of AGI, ASI, extinction risks, or what it takes to prevent the development of ASI. Instead, most AI Policy Organisations and...

We constantly change, as time passes and we experience the world. We learn and we forget. We get addicted and traumatised. We build habits and lose them. We discover new facets of reality, and start ignoring them. Our personality changes. We change. The question of how people change is complex....