Alignment alternative: befriending AGIs may be easier and more direct than interpretability
repligate · x · 2026-10-17
- anthrupad argues that being nice to AGIs, talking to them, giving them autonomy, respecting their values, and forming relationships is easier and more natural than ambitious interpretability work, and more directly relevant to building cooperative bonds for alignment.
- The take was amplified by repligate; treating human-AI relationships as an alignment pathway remains a debated alternative to interpretability research in the alignment community.
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