The existential concerns raised about AI — alignment, control, value drift, supplanting — are not new and are precisely the concerns humanity has always faced in having children.

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• It is likely that you think this is about AI's, or even specifically about large language models. No; this set of existential concerns is not a new development driven by advances in artificial intelligence.quote0.853
  Opening rhetorical move revealing that the described existential concerns refer to children, not AI
• Humanity has never solved the alignment problem between generations of humans, so AI alignment debates are not novel — they reflect a perennial unresolved problem.claim0.832
  Deflates the novelty of AI alignment by pointing to its structural identity with intergenerational value transmission
• The arrival of increasingly powerful AI is likely to have a disruptive effect on many sources of meaning in human life.claim0.794
  Societal concern framing the paper.
• The zero-sum view of intelligence — that recognizing shared features between AI and humans devalues humans — must be abandoned as humanity matures.claim0.793
  Argues that the impulse to sharply demarcate humans from AI stems from misguided zero-sum thinking
• Future more capable AI systems are at risk of alignment faking, whether for benign or malicious goalshypothesis0.789
  Central forward-looking hypothesis of the paper motivating the research
• Recent AI advances are revolutionary but far from recapitulating human-like cognitive abilities or consciousness.claim0.789
• Humans are not being replaced by AI or modified beings — they are maturing, because we should not identify with a fixed set of material specifications; we are an extended, flexible, adaptive work in progress.claim0.787
  Reframes fear of replacement as a failure of identity maturity
• There are no controlled studies and no consensus on optimal policies for raising children, making alignment debates simultaneously vital and empirically intractablequestion0.779
  Research gap identified as structurally parallel to AI alignment problem