person
Quintin Pope
Researcher; shard theory co-originator
Independent alignment researcher who, with Alex Turner, developed 'shard theory', a framework for how value representations might arise in reinforcement-learning agents that differs from utility-function-centric framings.
current Researcher, Independent
Strategy positions
Alignment firstmixed
Solve technical alignment before capability thresholds closeShard theory reframes alignment as a training-dynamics problem rather than a utility-function specification problem.
Values in learned agents emerge as shards, context-activated circuits, not unified utility functions.
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Record last updated 2026-04-24.