Alignment is a generalization problem: ML is alignment research by default
akbirthko · x · 2026-09-25
@akbirthko argues safety people have alignment backwards: it's a generalization problem—generalizing from a handful of alignment data to unseen scenarios—solved by finding inductive biases like much deeper models. ML is alignment research by default; "misalignment" is just a failure case of compressing human feedback data distribution with RL, akin to reasoning failures from insufficiently low cross-entropy loss.
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