Ethnographer Ethan Mollick-Adjacent Long Thread: 'Alignment' Is the Wrong Frame for Agentic AI Safety
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-10-01
In a long thread, ethanbdm argues from a social-science perspective (self-described non-expert) that "alignment" is the wrong framing for agentic AI safety.
- Core claims: the alignment framing is often conceptually confused.
- It almost always flattens the safety conversation in an unhelpfully binary way.
- The thread promises a fuller social-scientific unpacking of why the term misdirects debate.
Worth following for anyone interested in the meta-debate over AI safety terminology — treating "alignment" discourse itself as the object of analysis.
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