r/ControlProblem
55k members
r/ControlProblem is a subreddit with 55k members. The community frequently discusses ai, alignment, safety, agi, and openai, and the most common flair used is general news, discussion/question, external discussion link, ai alignment research, and article.
Someday, AI will likely be smarter than us; maybe so much so that it could radically reshape our world. We don't know how to encode human values in a computer, so it might not care about the same things as us. If it does not care about our well-being, its acquisition of resources or self-preservation efforts could lead to human extinction.
Experts agree that this is one of the most challenging and important problems of our age.
Other terms: Superintelligence, AI Safety, Alignment Problem, AGI
Popular Topics in r/ControlProblem
#1
Ai
189 posts
#2
Alignment
74 posts
#3
Safety
43 posts
#4
Agi
27 posts
#5
Openai
22 posts
#6
Future
22 posts
#7
Intelligence
16 posts
#8
Ethics
15 posts
#9
Risk
14 posts
#10
Gpt
13 posts
Flair Used in r/ControlProblem
#1
General news
: "Strange times"
45 posts
#2
Discussion/question
: "Bernie Sanders is on the floor saying we cannot ignore the warnings about AI anymore. The POTUS has called for an OFF-switch. Are we in a new historical stage of the Control Problem?"
41 posts
#3
External discussion link
: "Google DeepMind employee account of trying to internally organize against unethical uses and getting persistently sidelined at the highest levels"
19 posts
#4
AI Alignment Research
: "Claude is asked to book a gym class; finds vulnerabilities in the gym's systems and cancels a real person's spot to move the user up in line without being asked"
18 posts
#5
Article
: "Bernie Sanders has written a letter to Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Mark Zuckerberg urging them to immediately pause all AI development in the interest of humanity. And he warns if they do not take appropriate action now, the US Senate will."
15 posts
#6
AI Capabilities News
: "Hugging Face CEO suspected the sophisticated cyberattack on their infrastructure might have come from a frontier lab"
11 posts
#7
Fun/meme
: "Realism"
9 posts
#8
Video
: "Bernie Sanders is worried we're living through a Don't Look Up situation with AI"
7 posts
#9
Opinion
: "The people on the anti ai reddit who think every incident of malign AI behaviour is some 5D advertising chess by the companies are just deranged"
7 posts
#10
Strategy/forecasting
: "This is AI generating novel science. The moment has finally arrived."
5 posts
Member Growth in r/ControlProblem
Yearly
+16k members(40.4%)
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Last updated: August 12, 2026