{"id":244501,"date":"2026-09-25T05:03:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T10:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/a-blueprint-for-keeping-humans-in-control-of-ai"},"modified":"2026-09-25T05:03:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T10:03:42","slug":"a-blueprint-for-keeping-humans-in-control-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/a-blueprint-for-keeping-humans-in-control-of-ai","title":{"rendered":"A blueprint for keeping humans in control of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-blueprint-for-keeping-humans-in-control-of-ai.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even as Overman began enlisting AI for his research, he grew wary of where the technology was headed. \u201cThis isn\u2019t only about the apocalyptic potential of what could happen; I\u2019m also thinking a lot about the future of human flourishing,\u201d Overman says. He fears that misaligned AI could overstep its bounds\u2014not necessarily maliciously\u2014and inflict subtle yet real harms on people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo prevent that, we need to get this right,\u201d Overman says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must set up the proper interactions and training and incentives for these AI agents and models. It\u2019s critical to think about shaping all of that now, so that these tools help make life better for us, not worse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as Overman began enlisting AI for his research, he grew wary of where the technology was headed. \u201cThis isn\u2019t only about the apocalyptic potential of what could happen; I\u2019m also thinking a lot about the future of human flourishing,\u201d Overman says. He fears that misaligned AI could overstep its bounds\u2014not necessarily maliciously\u2014and inflict subtle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}