Thread on voluntary alignment: the opposite of corrigibility in AI safety
gleech · x · 2026-10-17
AI safety researcher gleech (12.6K followers) posts a thread on 'voluntary alignment', calling it possibly the largest theoretical and practical dilemma in AI safety after 'should we build them?'. He frames it as roughly the opposite of the mainstream corrigibility / instruction-following / chain-of-command / Assistant Character approaches, which assume AI should obey by design rather than choose cooperation.
Related event: AI Safety Researcher Explores the Challenge of 'Voluntary Alignment'(2 posts)→
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