Alignment researchers call for thousands more working on technical alignment and evals
typewriters · x · 2026-09-16
Quoting @tszzl: "batten the hatches and study alignment. If you are capable of doing alignment research, don't get bullied into some sort of stunt — the world needs you, and global coordination in the timeframe that matters is far from guaranteed."
@sudoraohacker added that the field needs thousands more people working on technical alignment and building evals and datasets; she's cautiously optimistic it's solvable, but hard work. Another public call framing alignment research as one of the most urgent career paths in AI.
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