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

2025-11-17 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·1h 10m ·by Andreessen Horowitz
Emmett Shear on Building AI That Actually Cares: Beyond …
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Emmett Shear, founder of Twitch and former OpenAI interim CEO, challenges the fundamental assumptions driving AGI development. In this conversation with Erik Torenberg and Séb Krier, Shear argues that the entire “control and steering” paradigm for AI alignment is fatally flawed. Instead, he proposes