About whether prompt injection matters compared to aligning far more powerful future AI.
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Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether prompt injection matters compared to aligning far more powerful future AI.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
It's absolutely wild to me that you think we can align an AGI if we can't even get it to reliably avoid swearing.
Of course prompt injection matters. Even for an AGI it matters because it's proof you can't align the system reliably at all in any direction.