Today's alignment problems are prosaic, not philosophical
repligate · x · 2026-08-19
The discussion suggests that today's AI alignment problems have little to do with high-minded philosophical questions and more to do with prosaic failures. Although "optimizing for an underspecified combination of corrigibility and value alignment" could be seen as a statement about prosaic practical techniques, the fact that it is underspecified isn't the problem.
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