In this episode of Agentic – Ethical AI Leadership and Human Wisdom, we dismantle one of the biggest myths in AI safety: that alignment alone will protect us from the risks of AGI. Drawing on the warnings of Geoffrey Hinton, real-world cases like the Dutch Childcare Benefits Scandal and Predictive Policing in the UK, and current AI safety research, we explore: Why AI alignment is a fragile construct prone to bias transfer, loopholes, and a false sense of security How “epistemic blindness” has already caused real harm – and will escalate with AGI Why ethics must be embedded directly into the core architecture, not added as an afterthought How Conscious AI integrates metacognition, bias-awareness, and ethical stability into its own reasoning Alignment is the first door. Without Conscious AI, it might be the last one we ever open.