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.
Related event: Scholars Propose "Reverse Alignment" and Warn Against Static Alignment(11 posts)→
More from AGI Musings
- Physicists Let AI Pick Its Own Problem—It Wrote a Publishable Paper in 2 Hours — burny_tech · 2026-10-27
- Deep learning veteran warns: don't let entrenched disbelief derail prep for the next big tech — jachiam0 · 2026-10-27
- Should platforms serve third-party AI agents? The antitrust question — sjgadler · 2026-10-27
- Is an agent clicking 'I am human' a lie? Debate over Amazon blocking agents — sjgadler · 2026-10-27
- Musk: robot RAM demand will dwarf everything else, and 100% of superintelligence compute goes to deep space — elonmusk · 2026-10-27
- Anthropic S-1 warns of AI job displacement as Microsoft offers exit to ~27% of staff — _jaydeepkarale · 2026-10-27