Dean Ball: A Strictly Law-Following AI Couldn't Even Help With LLM Training
deanwball · x · 2026-10-12
- Responding to "just make the AI follow the law" alignment proposals, Dean Ball notes legality is often disputed.
- Example: a strictly law-abiding AI shouldn't help with LLM training on public web data, since the legality of that practice is contested.
- Part of his broader argument that law alone can't serve as the load-bearing principle of AI alignment.
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