Are Modern Alignment Struggles Driven by Optimizing for Underspecified Corrigibility?
dylanbowmanSF · x · 2026-08-19
The author poses a technical question: are current struggles with AI misalignment driven by optimizing for an underspecified combination of corrigibility and value alignment? This touches on the core conflict in AI safety research regarding objective function specification.
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