Hadfield-Menell: taking contested values seriously is a natural brake for alignment
dhadfieldmenell · x · 2026-10-09
AI alignment researcher Hadfield-Menell offers a spicy take: seriously dealing with contested values is a natural brake that will improve the dynamics around solving the technical problem of reliably aligning to any human.
It's a contrarian stance against viewing value disputes as mere obstacles to technical alignment progress.
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