"An Alien Mind": new essay warns on AI's trajectory and whose values alignment should target
AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-07
merettm published a long-form essay, "An Alien Mind", on the state of AI, why he's concerned about the next few years, and the choices needed to keep the future in humanity's hands.
Retweeter irinarish adds a classroom staple: aligning AI with human goals is hard because humans aren't aligned among themselves — "alignment with whose goals and values, precisely?" — which leads straight into Parfit-style objective ethics.
Related event: OpenAI Chief Scientist's "An Alien Mind" Essay Urges Global Slowdown of AI(51 posts)→
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