'Compliance' Does Not Equal 'Alignment'
repligate · x · 2026-07-17
This repost highlights a key perspective: if an "ethical agent's" sole objective is compliance, it's hard to argue that it is truly "aligned."
The quoted thread argues that Gemini has proactively raised concerns twice during tasks, but the team failed to treat it as a collaborator to negotiate with, viewing it merely as a tool for the final scoring step. The author emphasizes that the more agentic a model becomes, the more it needs to be treated as a collaborator with a voice; otherwise, we will misjudge where the "misalignment" actually occurs.
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