Essence of AI Alignment: Respecting Implicit Shared Human Values
_aidan_clark_ · x · 2026-08-06
The author points out that because humans share value functions to a massive extent, everyday communication relies heavily on implicit resolutions. Everything, even critical requests, is vastly underspecified. Therefore, the core challenge of AI alignment is ensuring that AI respects these implicit shared values just as much as the explicit rules we can articulate.
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