Freedom Tech DC: A Future Worth Surviving For with @zackbshapiro - AI systems are finding strategies their designers never anticipated - Safety policy will concentrate control over intelligence - We need safeguards aimed at dangerous frontier capabilities - Extraordinary government powers should require evidence, review, and limits - Independent research and pluralism are essential to a future that preserves freedom (00:00) — Introduction (01:29) — The trajectory toward more capable AI (03:00) — The alignment problem (05:22) — Safety policy and concentrated power (06:52) — Targeting dangerous frontier capabilities (07:59) — The burden of proof for government powers (08:15) — Pluralism and independent scrutiny (09:14) — A future worth surviving for