Alignment Is an Ongoing Process, Not a Model Property, Says Dietterich

Thomas Dietterich, drawing on Nancy Leveson's Engineering a Safer World, argues alignment is not a static model property but an actively maintained process, noting that failure modes and environmental changes exhibit unbounded diversity.

2026-09-21 ~ 2026-09-21 · 2 related posts

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