"Just train a 1B critic to solve alignment" gets roasted with an antibiotics analogy
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-09-17
- A developer argued alignment is easy: train a 1B critic to classify traces for reward hacking or 'killing all humans', break if p(yes)>0.5—and offered his services to Dario and Sam Altman.
- The take went viral for the wrong reasons, mocked with an analogy: 'getting rid of dangerous bacteria is easy, just keep prescribing antibiotics.'
- A textbook AI-safety moment of a naive solution being dunked on by the field's complexity.
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