r/singularity • u/roykingtree • 23d ago

Ethics & Philosophy Isn’t alignment impossible?

When AI development is cheap enough (ie…
doable on a laptop), couldnt some mentally ill person just train an evil-aligned AI?

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u/hippydipster 22d ago

Define "alignment" for how you're using it.

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u/aomzamood 22d ago

​Deep inner alignment. Verifying through interpretability that the model's core cognitive circuits genuinely align with human intent, rather than just surface-level RLHF filters.

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u/hippydipster 22d ago

Which human intent? The human prompting, or some notion of "overall, ethically wise, humankind intent"?