Everyone Talks About AI Alignment. Nobody Asks: Aligned to Whom?
PianistWinter8293 · reddit · 2026-10-06
A YouTube video raises a frequently overlooked question in alignment discourse: when people say AI should be "aligned," aligned to whom exactly — the user, the company, a particular social group, or some assumed universal values?
The video digs into the philosophical foundations of value alignment and challenges the implicit single-authority assumption in mainstream alignment talk, making it an opinion-level contribution to AI ethics and alignment debates.
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