Paper argues AI alignment breaks when human values keep evolving
weballergy · x · 2026-07-22
AI alignment as a moving target
The paper argues that treating human values and preferences as fixed optimization targets is brittle in practice.
It zooms out to the long-term effects of deep personalization and widespread AI assistants, asking how alignment should work in a society where social norms keep evolving rather than staying static.
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