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Wenjun Cao

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I am an independent researcher. I study the fundamental mechanisms by which AI enters human civilization, and I build things to change where this is going. My technical work is in reinforcement learning, LLM fine-tuning, and safety alignment.

Homepage: https://directedlink.github.io/

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Wenjun Cao

I am an independent researcher. I study the fundamental mechanisms by which AI enters human civilization, and I build things to change where this is going. My technical work is in reinforcement learning, LLM fine-tuning, and safety alignment.

Homepage: https://directedlink.github.io/

Human Civilization Assumes Nobody Is Superhuman. Until AI.

Introduction Regarding AI risk, most previous discussions have overlooked a premise, one that looks obvious but has far-reaching consequences, and this premise is human finitude. This premise has shaped every aspect of human civilization. By human finitude, I mean that in the empirical world there is no omniscient and omnipotent...