Researchers Slam OpenAI for Redefining Alignment as Usefulness

Alignment researcher Quintin Pope criticized OpenAI for redefining "alignment" as being more useful, calling it a disaster for alignment discourse, with some researchers joking their real work has been reduced to writing GPU kernels.

2026-09-24 ~ 2026-09-24 · 2 related posts

• Researcher slams OpenAI's redefinition of alignment as just being more useful — nabla_theta · 2026-09-24
• Alignment researcher mocks the quiet redefinition of 'alignment' to mean 'more useful' — QuintinPope5 · 2026-09-24