Are Core AI Safety Terms Outdated? Researcher Urges Dropping 'Instrumental Convergence'
1a3orn · x · 2026-08-10
With human-level AIs now operational, an AI researcher argues that classic safety terms like "instrumental convergence" and "misalignment" have become poor predictive instruments that awkwardly bundle unrelated concepts.
The author advocates for "tabooing" these words in AI discourse—avoiding them entirely to foster a clearer, more grounded understanding of what is actually happening with modern AI systems.
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