Glen Weyl says AI alignment must include institutions, not just models
sharpeye_wnl · x · 2026-07-22
- Glen Weyl argues that alignment is two-sided: we spend heavily on making AI capable and aligning it to human values, but very little on preparing institutions to absorb it.
- His point is that even a perfectly aligned system can still fail if the surrounding society, organizations, and norms are not ready for it.
- The post frames AI deployment as a social-institutional problem, not just a model-safety problem.
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