The market is a powerful aligning force for AI development: products without positive utility fail to gain users and companies fail, creating selective pressure toward aligned, interpretable models that perform well, which is gentler and more effective than top-down regulation of compute.
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Guillaume VerdonEvidence Quote
“The market is a powerful aligning force. If you have a product without positive utility, we don't buy it and it dies. AI models are products. Competition for users and capital induces selective pressure—models that aren't aligned or hard to interpret don't do well in the market.”
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:19:37 PM
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