The man who turned $225 million into $13.7 billion identified the single hardest unsolved problem in AI (Save this).
Milk Road AI Twitter · Milk Road AI (@MilkRoadAI) · 2026-05-29
Leopold Aschenbrenner, known for turning $225 million into $13.7 billion, identifies AI honesty as the single hardest unsolved problem in AI and argues it is central to the alignment challenge.
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Topics: ai-alignmentai-safetyai-honesty
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- Leopold Aschenbrenner identifies AI honesty as the hardest unsolved problem in AI.
- Solving AI honesty would likely get researchers most of the way toward solving alignment.
- Achieving AI honesty is surprisingly difficult even as a narrow technical goal.
- Aschenbrenner achieved exceptional investment returns, growing $225 million to $13.7 billion.
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Would solving AI honesty solve alignment? Probably gets you pretty far but it is surprisingly hard to even do that.