Jan Kulveit
Researcher, Alignment of Complex Systems Research Group, Charles University
Jan Kulveit researches AI alignment and systemic risk at Charles University in Prague and is lead author of the 2025 paper "Gradual Disempowerment," which argues AI could erode human influence incrementally rather than through a sudden takeover.
Key arguments & positions
- Argues that AI could disempower humanity gradually, without any single dramatic takeover, as economies, states and culture come to depend less on human participation.
Accomplishments
- Researcher at the Alignment of Complex Systems Research Group at Charles University in Prague.
- Lead author of the 2025 paper “Gradual Disempowerment: Systemic Existential Risks from Incremental AI Development.”
Papers & key writings
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The Basic AI Drives
Paper by Stephen Omohundro (2008) arguing that sufficiently advanced goal-directed AI systems would tend to develop basic drives such as self-preservation, resource acquisition, and goal preservation, and discussing what those drives imply for designing safe AI. Hosted on the Self-Aware Systems site.
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"Alignment Engineering" vs. "Misalignment Science"
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My New Course at UT Austin: AI Alignment Theory
October 2026 post by computer scientist Scott Aaronson describing CS395T AI Alignment Theory, a new graduate course he teaches at UT Austin, with the course description and topics.
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