What Emad Mostaque has said about AI alignment

1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 28, 2026

Emad Mostaque, Founder of Intelligent Internet and former CEO of Stability AI, has been quoted on AI alignment once in 1 episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, most recently on October 28, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

Mostaque reports that removing dangerous knowledge from pre-training data does not meaningfully hurt model performance elsewhere.
“The answer is it doesn't really reduce the overall performance of the models in other areas”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Anthropic’s $2T IPO, Elon Predicts Neocloud Death, and China’s Kimi Catches Up | #306 (Oct 28, 2026) · Listen from 2:11:27

Episodes

Anthropic’s $2T IPO, Elon Predicts Neocloud Death, and China’s Kimi Catches Up | #306
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Oct 28, 2026 · 2 h 17 min
Peter Diamandis and co-hosts discuss the neocloud sell-off, Anthropic's IPO, Chinese open model Kimi, Alex Wissner-Gross's chain theory of physics, cloned working dogs, and OpenAI's math results.

Others on AI alignment

Alexander Wissner-Gross · 5 quotes
David Robinson · 4 quotes
Dave Blundin · 4 quotes
Sean Webb · 3 quotes
Chamath Palihapitiya · 3 quotes
Salim Ismail · 3 quotes
Mustafa Suleyman · 2 quotes
Jeffrey Ladish · 2 quotes

Emad Mostaque on other topics

AI existential risk · 2 quotes
Chain theory · 1 quote
Kimi (Moonshot AI) · 1 quote
Side-channel attack · 1 quote
Anthropic initial public offering · 1 quote
Neocloud providers and AI data center debt · 1 quote
Self-driving cars · 1 quote
Universal basic income · 1 quote