Dad retells the Prague golem legend as an AI alignment parable about prompt failures
joshua_saxe · x · 2026-10-20
Joshua Saxe taught his 5-year-old about heritage by retelling the golem legend: a 16th-century Jew in Prague builds an "AI architecture" out of clay, feeds it text to bring it to life. It's helpful at first, then struggles to understand its prompts, goes on a rampage, and is finally brought to heel and destroyed — a fitting AI alignment parable hiding in folklore.
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