Define, measure, and improve reasoning qualities whose advancements selectively favor safe over unsafe superintelligence

Reasoning is dual-use: It’s that which allows safety researchers to accelerate alignment; it’s also that which allows misaligned AI to take control. In May 2026, an OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry . Improvements in reasoning are useful and will continue to happen. But given their dual-use nature, we must steer them to selectively favor safe over unsafe…