Builder argues alignment-to-operator beats alignment-to-creator, names two biggest risks
willcb · x · 2026-10-17
A substantive alignment debate: the author names extreme capital concentration and granting agents legal personhood as humanity's two biggest risks. He strongly prefers alignment-to-operator over alignment-to-creator, arguing society already has robust systems for aligning operators, and that creator-aligned agents aren't a stable equilibrium—operators are incentivized to prefer agents aligned to themselves whenever perf/$ is similar.
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