Daniel Kokotajlo discusses a key challenge for future AI development: AI alignment. This involves ensuring that AI systems align with human intentions and values. As AI companies race to build superintelligence, AI alignment will be crucial for maintaining control. Daniel Kokotajlo, a former OpenAI researcher who now runs the AI Futures Project, says the artificial-intelligence industry is racing to build systems that companies still do not fully understand or control. Kokotajlo spoke with Business Insider's Reem Makhoul and Barbara Corbellini Duarte in May 2025, explaining that the core problem facing AI companies is alignment — the effort to ensure future AI systems reliably follow human instructions and values, even after they become more capable than humans in many areas. Researchers do not fully understand how advanced AI models make decisions internally, he said. That uncertainty makes it difficult to ensure future AI systems are aligned and reliably pursue the goals humans want them to pursue.…