Steve Sinofsky: Stop saying AI is 'misaligned', call it BUGGY
stevesi · x · 2026-09-17
Former Microsoft Windows chief Steve Sinofsky posted a one-liner: whenever someone says AI is "misaligned," replace it with BUGGY — reframing AI safety as an engineering problem. A reply pushed back that probabilistic systems behave exactly as designed and thus can't be "buggy," highlighting a genuine framing debate.
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