roon says alignment has had no fundamental advances since RLHF; TheZvi replies "you're wrong!"
TheZvi · x · 2026-10-13
OpenAI researcher roon tweeted that there have been no fundamental advances in alignment since RLHF — most of the field remains at the level of folk theory rather than a scientific or engineering discipline, and his prediction that capabilities would race far ahead of interpretability and alignment has come true.
AI commentator TheZvi quote-shared it with a blunt rebuttal: "you're wrong!" The exchange captures an ongoing debate over whether alignment research has real cumulative progress or is still folk theory.
Related event: Alignment stagnation debate erupts as OpenAI chief scientist weighs in(19 posts)→
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