Why aren't labs investing real money into alignment research, Redditor asks
Stabile_Feldmaus · reddit · 2026-09-16
A Redditor argues the obvious solution to continuing AI acceleration safely is for labs to invest far more money into alignment research — which they don't appear to be doing. He frames alignment as just another research problem, like continual learning or long-horizon reasoning, and argues labs should commit real resources to solving it, noting the mismatch between stated risk and actual investment.
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