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

Emmett Shear, Erik Torenberg, Séb Krier

Former OpenAI researcher Emmett leads Softmax in advancing a paradigm that treats AI alignment as a continuous process of cultivating "care" rather than enforcing static rule sets. The organization employs large-scale multi-agent simulations to train systems that develop genuine social intuition and moral agency through dynamic interaction, aiming to prevent the risks associated with uncontrollable tools. This approach seeks to create AI beings that function as ethical peers and teammates capable of genuine empathy instead of functioning merely as compliant mirrors for user demands.