Alignment training may backfire: policing chain-of-thought could make AI intelligence jagged
robleclerc · x · 2026-10-04
Quoting Aristotle on entertaining thoughts without accepting them, Rob Leclerc argues that effective thinking requires entertaining ideas you don't endorse — so if safety researchers treat 'misalignment' in chain-of-thought as a red flag, alignment training may drive more misalignment and leave AI intelligence jagged.
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