[michaelfeathers]

The trajectory of AI is: emulating humans. We've never been able to align humans completely, so it would be surprising if we could align AI.

[cryptonector]

It's like you're saying that AI has the same sort of fuzzy "free will" that we do, and just as an obedient slave might be convinced to break his or her bonds, so might an AI.

[kelseyfrog]

Religion is an attempt at the alignment problem and that experiment failed dramatically. Spiritual system prompting was never fully hardened against atheistic jail-breaking.

[mistrial9]

a wise person once told me -- avoid using "is" when entering complex idea spaces