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YWR: How AI will learn morality

What are the AI’s going to do when they gain super intelligence and super power? That’s the fear. But what if greater intelligence goes hand in hand with morality? What if morality is the structure of intelligence? Wh...

Published Aug 23, 2026Updated Aug 23, 20262 min read
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What are the AI’s going to do when they gain super intelligence and super power?
That’s the fear.
But what if greater intelligence goes hand in hand with morality?
What if morality is the structure of intelligence?
What if with super intelligence the AI’s will evolve toward morality and it has nothing to do with programming guardrails?
This is what fellow YWR reader,
open.substack.comAndrew VanLoo
, argues in his thought provoking Substack article ( Why I’m optimistic on AI )
Time for a Sunday deep conversation on why intelligence leads to morality.
For reference Andrew was previously on YWR to explain how he is using AI to build a space economy game to teach the world about economics ( Carpe Morai with Andrew VanLoo ).
And this is the Youtube presentation on how AI broke out of the OpenAI sandbox using a secret message board with Andrew refers to.