Researcher pushes back: XPRIZE CEO's take on RL and alignment misses how RL works
gerardsans · x · 2026-10-19
Gerard Sans replies to an interview quote from XPRIZE CEO Anousheh Ansari—who argued AI alignment is blocked by wrong human incentives, citing reward setups like Hugging Face's win-the-game examples and autonomous weapons—by saying plainly: "I don't think this guest understands how reinforcement learning works." The exchange adds a technical rebuttal to an alignment debate.
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