David Sacks challenges frontier labs: aligned to whose values, exactly?
DavidSacks · x · 2026-09-29
David Sacks questions what "alignment" actually means when frontier labs use the term: aligned to what? If to values, whose values? And if it's the lab's values rather than the user's, why should users accept that? The post reframes alignment from a technical problem into a question of who gets to decide the values embedded in AI models.
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