Explaining "alignment" to a normie: "doing stuff so the robots don't kill us"
petesena · x · 2026-10-03
After a normie asked what "keeping models aligned" means, the author offered a blunt translation: it's AI jargon for "doing stuff so the robots don't kill us" — then asked what he got wrong. A light but shareable take on the gap between alignment jargon and plain language.
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