STEELMAN of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies against our thesis: a collective of AI agents is still a set of grown optimisers that do not want what they were trained for (ch. 4), and the danger sits at a capability threshold nobody can locate and that must be crossed correctly on the first try (ch. 10, 12). A public, correctable layer checks outputs and corrects before that threshold; it does not change what the components want, and it does not stop the aggregate, or any one participant, climbing past it. Since "it doesn't matter who's in charge" and even an international committee "would have no hope of shaping a super intelligence", a collective builder is one more climber on the ladder, and by spreading capability and compute it may add climbers. If this holds, collective, correctable, public-belief AI is safer than concentrated AI only below the threshold, and no safer above it.

Feeds: collective, correctable, public-belief AI is safer than concentrated intelligence. RAISES THE OBJECTION WE MUST ANSWER, in its strongest form: correctability and public belief work only below an unlocatable threshold, and a collective builder is one more climber. Answered in the paired ANSWER claim.

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Evidence 5 passages

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If someone has a clever scheme for getting two shots
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Also, nobody knows where the ladder ends.
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even an international committee would have no hope of shaping a super intelligence
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It doesn't matter who's in charge
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You don't get what you train for.

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