What Connor Leahy has said about AI alignment
1 quote · 1 episode · Sep 18, 2026
Connor Leahy, AI researcher, co-founder of EleutherAI and US Executive Director of the advocacy group Control AI, has been quoted on AI alignment once in 1 episode of Danny Jones Podcast, most recently on September 18, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Leahy cites Anthropic's CEO as estimating humans understand only about 3% of AI internals, which Leahy considers optimistic.
“In fact, recently, the CEO of Anthropic, Dara Amadei, said he thinks we understand maybe 3% of what's going on inside of those numbers”
Danny Jones Podcast: #432 - "Terrifying New Behavior" Real Reason AI CEOs Are Building Bunkers | Connor Leahy (Sep 18, 2026) · Listen from 5:28
Episodes
#432 - "Terrifying New Behavior" Real Reason AI CEOs Are Building Bunkers | Connor LeahyDanny Jones Podcast · Sep 18, 2026 · 2 h 44 min
AI safety advocate Connor Leahy tells Danny Jones why superintelligence must be banned, then discusses nuclear history, UFO skepticism, democracy and state capacity.
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- Social media algorithms · 1 quote
- Nuclear proliferation · 1 quote
- Human cloning · 1 quote
- Control AI · 1 quote