'Are we humans even aligned with each other?' A contrarian take on AI alignment
YiMaTweets · x · 2026-09-15
Questioning the premise of aligning AI with humans, the author argues that frontier lab behavior suggests humans aren't even aligned among themselves, nor are words aligned with actions. Technology itself is rarely the problem — human manipulation is — so instead of making AI behave like a typical human, we should aim for something better than us.
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