David Sacks amplifies view that AI alignment itself is the core AI safety problem
DavidSacks · x · 2026-10-11
David Sacks retweeted bgurley's take that the notion of AI alignment itself is the safety problem in AI. The underlying article, "AI Alignment: Power Disguised as Morality," argues alignment began as a control problem but is becoming something bigger: deciding which values machines internalize and how those values get applied back to humans — raising the harder question: aligned to whom?
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