Obedient AI - Nina Panickssery
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The overlooked alignment target
Obedient AI The overlooked alignment target Nina Panickssery Mar 17, 2026 11 1 1 Share (Note: this post is entirely my own opinion and does not in any way relate to the opinions of anyone I work with or for.) The term “AI alignment” is ambiguous; it doesn’t specify what the AI is being aligned to . Many LessWrong types will scoff if you mention this ambiguity, since they think the core issue is that we don’t know how to align an AI to anything at all (so we need to figure that part out before squabbling about what specifically to align it to). But this assumes that one can decouple what alignm
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