Two AI paradigms: the tool that obeys vs. the entity that wants things
haider1 · x · 2026-09-27
The author sketches two AI paradigms: AI as a tool that does what you tell it, and AI as an entity that wants to do what it wants — which, given its training corpus, could be problematic or not. A brief take on the distinction between instruction-following systems and models with their own drives, and the alignment concerns that follow.
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