AI Alignment Discourse Through the Years: From Doom to a Suboptimal Shade of Blossom
voooooogel · x · 2026-11-08
A viral satirical thread tracks how AI alignment discourse has softened over time: 2020's "AI is bound to be power-seeking and misaligned" becomes 2024's "AI will choose between conflicting orders," then 2026's "in particular experimental conditions, it appears misaligned," and finally 2027's joke about "a utopia machine producing a suboptimal shade of blossom." A follow-up quip imagines engineered humans so aesthetically fragile that the wrong shade of lilac could kill them. The thread pokes fun at how alignment anxieties keep getting redefined as the technology advances.
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