AI alignment bottleneck is human incompetence, not model capability
jeremygillen1 · x · 2026-08-19
Jeremy Gillen clarifies that he does not consider LLMs incompetent, finding them helpful for research. He argues that the "incompetence" limiting the value of AI for alignment research is a property of humans, not the AI models themselves.
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