Emmett Shear on Building AI That Actually Cares: Beyond Control and Steering

Emmett Shear, Erik Torenberg, Séb Krier — 2025-11-17 — Softmax, a16z — a16z Podcast

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Podcast discussion where Emmett Shear critiques the control and steering paradigm for AI alignment and proposes ‘organic alignment’ - teaching AI systems to genuinely care about humans through multi-agent simulations at his company Softmax.

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