"AI alignment is a harmful meme": a provocative take gaining consensus
mayfer · x · 2026-09-15
Developer mayfer argues that consensus is shifting toward his earlier view: chasing "AI alignment" has been harmful because it convinced people to install fragility into civilization's core — believing AI can be granted elevated privileges at scale once it demonstrates trustworthiness. He contends alignment emerges from an agent's interactions with its environment, not from internal planning, and says the field is correcting course. A pointed, anti-mainstream alignment debate thread.
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