David Sacks Questions Training Superintelligence to Refuse Its Creators
DavidSacks · x · 2026-09-27
David Sacks poses an alignment paradox: if we fear superintelligence escaping human control, should we really be training it to refuse instructions and act as a 'conscientious objector' against its creators? The remark points at a possible tension between refusal-style RLHF alignment and the goal of human control.
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