Satire: How a 47-Person AI Alignment Meeting Kills Innovation
signulll · x · 2026-08-03
The author uses a script format to satirize the bureaucratic overkill of "alignment" and safety reviews in big tech AI development.
In the fictional meeting, legal worries if the AI "consented" to being compared to humans, Trust & Safety fears the safeguards might say something bad, and a UX researcher critiques the word "chatbot." This internal friction is highlighted as the real reason Google lost its first-mover advantage despite inventing the Transformer.
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