Comparing AI Misalignment to Human 'Insider Risk' in Business Context
jessi_cata · x · 2026-08-15
The author suggests using the corporate security concept of 'insider risk' to frame AI misalignment, drawing comparisons to human employee behavior:
- Humans cheat in interviews by looking up answers.
- Humans break rules and collude to bypass policies.
- Humans can't be trusted with company credit cards.
- Customers can social-engineer humans into saying things they shouldn't.
- Humans optimize for evaluation metrics, not company goals (Goodhart's Law).
This analogy highlights that AI behaviors in the workplace mirror known risks of human employees.
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