iamtrask: AI feels alive because it's a mirror of 8 billion people
iamtrask · x · 2026-08-22
Former OpenAI leader iamtrask offers an analogy: AI feels like it's alive because it's a mirror — and "the object in the mirror is 8 billion people." He extends the idea: AI bias is about which people are in the mirror, and RLHF-style value alignment is essentially swapping which people the mirror reflects.
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