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
Summary
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.
Source
- Link: https://a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/emmett-shear-on-building-ai-that-actually-cares-beyond-control-and-steering-TRwfxH0r
- Listed in the Shallow Review of Technical AI Safety 2025 under 1 agenda(s):
- aligning-what — Multi-agent first