You Can't Punish a Model Into Alignment - Ajeya Cotra on Dwarkesh

Dwarkesh Patel · youtube · 2026-09-15

Dwarkesh Patel releases an interview with alignment researcher Ajeya Cotra titled "You Can't Punish a Model Into Alignment," examining why penalty-based training fundamentally falls short for value alignment in frontier models.

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