Emmett Shear @eshear co-founded Twitch and guided OpenAI through its most intense 72 hours as interim CEO. Now he’s doing the opposite of most AI research at his organic alignment lab @softmaxresearch: scaling up a population of small dumb agents to align with each other as one—like the 28 trillion cells that make up “you”. Emmett opened our DEMi3 summit (backed by @cyberFund_) with a fireside chat on alignment with @kylejohnmorris, founder of @demi_network. How is a sword like a learning system? Who would you get obligatory multicellular with? Is deceptive alignment even a real concern? Watch his full-length talk below 👇 0:01:30 - Defining Alignment: "Aligned to what?" 0:02:50 - Organic Alignment: "Align WITH rather than TO" 0:05:00 - e.g. The invisible hand as original AI 0:07:21 - e.g. The gene regulatory network in cells 0:09:00 - Softmax's novel approach: Multi-agent RL of a small dumb population 0:10:36 - Alignment must be a choice: Meta-learning cooperation 0:12:47 - Softmax's mission 0:15:00 - Alignment is a dangerous, powerful capability 0:16:37 - How humans align: The big inference jump 0:19:00 - When alignment fails (e.g. cancer cells) + obligatory multicellular enforcement 0:21:47 - Addressing "deceptive alignment" risks: Alignment isn't asymmetric 0:25:37 - How to implement organic AI alignment 0:26:33 - What we need to do now: Humans & AI aligning with each other as a family