Why verifying AI alignment is harder than verifying capability
A multi-party discussion explores why verifying AI alignment is fundamentally harder than verifying capability, noting that major model gains have come from easily verifiable tasks. Researchers argue that as models get stronger, the next trainable tasks increasingly resemble alignment problems, which resist easy reward specification.
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