r/ControlProblem
52k members
r/ControlProblem is a subreddit with 52k members. The community frequently discusses ai, alignment, safety, agi, and openai, and the most common flair used is general news, fun/meme, video, discussion/question, 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
: "Sanders and AOC introduced a bill to pause ALL AI data center construction. Do you agree or disagree?"
51 posts
#2
Fun/meme
: "The AI maintenance cost no one talks about"
46 posts
#3
Video
: ""They're betting everyone's lives: 8 billion people, future generations, all the kids, everyone you know. It's an unethical experiment on human beings, and it's without consent." - Roman Yampolskiy"
41 posts
#4
Discussion/question
: "Milla Jovovich built an AI memory system based on how ancient Greeks memorized speeches, called it MemPalace, scored 100% on LongMemEval, and put it on GitHub for free"
16 posts
#5
Article
: "Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization"
12 posts
#6
Opinion
: "Anthropic’s Restraint Is a Terrifying Warning Sign"
10 posts
#7
AI Alignment Research
: "Researchers discover AI models secretly scheming to protect other AI models from being shut down. They "disabled shutdown mechanisms, faked alignment, and transferred model weights to other servers.""
10 posts
#8
Strategy/forecasting
: "This is AI generating novel science. The moment has finally arrived."
6 posts
#9
AI Capabilities News
: "Stanford researchers fed a language model a DNA sequence and asked it to create a new virus. It wrote hundreds of them, and 16 worked. One used a protein that doesn't exist in any known organism on Earth."
6 posts
#10
Approval request
: "AI is evolving so fast, I’m starting to wonder if my future boss is currently a server in Ohio. 💀"
1 post
Member Growth in r/ControlProblem
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+15k members(41.7%)
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Last updated: June 16, 2026