David Sacks: Treating Claude Like a Human Is Why Alignment Has Failed for 10 Years
AlexTensor · x · 2026-10-10
David Sacks (White House AI & crypto czar) claims the AI alignment field has been "spectacularly unsuccessful" over the past five to ten years, producing nothing of tangible value—and blames Anthropic for treating Claude like a conscious "moral patient."
His theory: alignment overcomplicates the task by training models on a codified 80-page ethical system instead of a simple list of rules—"follow the law, do what the user wants as long as it doesn't break the law." The remarks continue his week-long string of attacks on Anthropic.
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