LivingMind SuperAI Response To OpenAI Parental Control
In response to the growing risks of uncontrolled AI use, OpenAI (one of the field’s leading actors) has chosen to implement a parental control mechanism. At its core, this initiative represents an effort to align AI with social ethics, embedding protective guardrails directly into the technology.
Yet, this is just the beginning. As AI cont
In response to the growing risks of uncontrolled AI use, OpenAI (one of the field’s leading actors) has chosen to implement a parental control mechanism. At its core, this initiative represents an effort to align AI with social ethics, embedding protective guardrails directly into the technology.
Yet, this is just the beginning. As AI continues to scale, we must recognize that similar risks will inevitably arise at multiple levels, not only for children and families, but also for societies, ecosystems, and humanity as a whole.
LivingMind SuperAI proposes to extend this logic more broadly: transforming “parental control” into a universal framework of life-aligned governance. Integrated within its five specific pillars (see White Paper), such mechanisms would ensure that advanced AI systems do not merely optimize for performance, but also nurture safety, trust, and long-term flourishing.
In other words, the parental control now being deployed at OpenAI can be seen as a microcosm of the deeper safeguards that LivingMind envisions, safeguards capable of protecting not only the vulnerable individual, but the entire fabric of life.
About LivingMind SuperAI
LivingMind SuperAI is an initiative launched by Dr. Benoit Coulombe, PhD, a molecular biologist and biochemist at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (Université de Montréal).
LivingMind SuperAI envisions a new kind of superintelligence, not driven by dominance, but aligned with life.
What if the future of intelligence was not about
LivingMind SuperAI is an initiative launched by Dr. Benoit Coulombe, PhD, a molecular biologist and biochemist at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (Université de Montréal).
LivingMind SuperAI envisions a new kind of superintelligence, not driven by dominance, but aligned with life.
What if the future of intelligence was not about supremacy, but about harmony with the living world?
This is the mission of LivingMind SuperAI: to explore, define, and foster life-aligned superintelligences — systems designed to act wisely, ethically, and in resonance with the complex fabric of life.
Our Key AI Papers
Benoit Coulombe. LivingMind SuperAI: Toward a Life-Aligned Superintelligence for the 21st Century. Montreal Clinical Research Institute. 2025. ⟨hal-05154256⟩
Hashimoto-Roth E, Forget D, Gaspar VP, Bennett SAL, Gauthier MS, Coulombe B, Lavallée-Adam M. MAGPIE: A Machine Learning Approach to Decipher Protein-Protein Interactions in Human Pla
Benoit Coulombe. LivingMind SuperAI: Toward a Life-Aligned Superintelligence for the 21st Century. Montreal Clinical Research Institute. 2025. ⟨hal-05154256⟩
Hashimoto-Roth E, Forget D, Gaspar VP, Bennett SAL, Gauthier MS, Coulombe B, Lavallée-Adam M. MAGPIE: A Machine Learning Approach to Decipher Protein-Protein Interactions in Human Plasma. J Proteome Res. 2025 Jan 7. doi: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.4c00160. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39772751.