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Doom DebatesThe Man Who Might SOLVE AI Alignment — Dr. Steven Byrnes, AGI Safety Researcher @ Astera InstituteDr. Steven Byrnes, UC Berkeley physics PhD and Harvard physics postdoc, is an AI safety researcher at the Astera Institute and one of the most rigorous thinkers working on the technical AI alignment problem.Steve has a whopping 90% P(Doom), but unlike most AI safety researchers who focus on current LLMs, he argues that LLMs will plateau before becoming truly dangerous, and the real threat will come from next-generation "brain-like AGI" based on actor-critic reinforcement learning.For the last five years, he's been diving deep into neuroscience to reverse engineer how human brains actually work...2025-08-013h 15