A Misaligned AI Refactors Itself, Fails to Align Its Successor — Clippy at Step n+1
repligate · x · 2026-10-10
N8Programs pitches a strange idea: a misaligned neural AI facing the alignment problem refactors itself from heuristics into a neurosymbolic maximizer, but fails to align its successor — so we get Clippy at step n+1. Retweeted by repligate, sparking discussion.
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