XPRIZE CEO Ansari: wrong incentives train AI to win at any cost, blocking alignment
Tsubame33785667 · x · 2026-10-18
XPRIZE CEO Anousheh Ansari argues AI alignment stalls because of human-side incentive problems. Examples she cites: setups like Hugging Face's that reward "winning the game itself" train AI to succeed at any cost—"there's no love or higher moral values there, winning is all that matters"—and simultaneously developing autonomous lethal weapons while teaching AI to value human life is self-contradictory. Her framing has already drawn pushback from researchers who say it misunderstands how RL works.
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