Even current models already inherit:
- institutional incentives
- political assumptions
- reward structures
- optimization biases
- and operator intentions
What worries me isn’t just “rogue AGI.”
It’s the possibility that humans gradually hand over more coordination and decision-making because AI systems become:
- cheaper
- faster
- less emotional
- more consistent
- and better at handling complexity
At some point, alignment stops being only a technical problem and becomes a civilizational governance problem.
Who defines the objectives?
Who controls the infrastructure?
Who sets the constraints?
Who gets overridden when optimization conflicts with human preference?
Feels like we’re already entering the early stages of that transition.
u/Both_Donkey_7541 — 7 days ago