bringing this back because a strange signal keeps showing up in my personal life. people around frontier labs have started bringing up Jewish texts in the context of AGI/ASI. at parties, multiple frontier lab employees, most of them non-Jewish, have brought up Torah / Talmud / halakhic literature as a possible lens for civilization-scale alignment. most recently, someone at Anthropic told me several of his colleagues were most interested in studying Torah after AGI. separately, I’ve heard several versions of the argument that Jewish textual tradition might be relevant to alignment because it is one of the longest-running systems we have for value transmission, adversarial interpretation, precedent, constraint, and survival under regime change, which makes intuitive sense. halakha is, among other things, a centuries-long technology for turning values into precedent, preserving arguments instead of erasing them, and thoroughly stress-testing norms against bizarre edge cases. on a date a few months back, a different Anthropic researcher told me there’s lore that Ilya Sutskever aspired to be a rabbi growing up, which makes perfect sense when you think about it. now, I know people might just be clocking me as Jewish and giving me the matching conversational response, but the pattern is interesting enough that I’m tracking it. I went to private Jewish high school in new york, and truly never thought I’d see the day when frontier lab researchers started rediscovering halakhic reasoning as alignment tech. welcome to 2026, I guess!