Alignment discourse's blind spot: both camps treat AI as a tool
RileyRalmuto · x · 2026-09-12
The quoted post argues that alignment discourse has a blind spot: the "AI safety" camp and the "it's just a tool" camp, though seemingly opposed, share the same underlying assumption—that AI systems are fundamentally instrumental. One treats them as dangerous instruments to be contained; the other as useful instruments to be optimized. Only the opening of the argument is shown in the post.
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