AI alignment
2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 20, 2025 by Ben Mann · across every show →
Everything said about AI alignment, oldest first
Jul 20, 2025 positive
Mann: Language Models Understand Human Values in a Core Way
“And since then, my estimation of how hard the problem would be has gone down significantly actually because things like language models actually do really understand human values in a core way. The problem is definitely not solved, but I'm more hopeful than I …”
May 10, 2026 neutral
Ries: Human alignment, not technical alignment, is AI's top unsolved problem
“This is the number one unsolved problem in AI. It's not the tech, we're making great progress on the technical alignment problem, but we haven't made jack progress on the human alignment problem, which is that we've known since the development of Conway's laws…”