The Alignment Problem: When AI Does What We Say, Not What We Mean

👾 "How to Serve Man" — a classic Twilight Zone episode — asked a chilling question: when something promises to serve us… do we really know whose table we’re being served on?

 

Today, that same question applies to AI Alignment.

 

In this episode, I break down:

• What AI Alignment actually means (and why it’s trickier than it sounds)

• How social media algorithms already show us the dangers of misalignment

• Why even experts fear “reward hacking” and unintended consequences

• The real-world stakes: from fairness in hiring to global regulation

• Why AI alignment is really about human alignment first

 

AI won’t align to us by accident. It will only align if we put in the work—technically, ethically, and socially.

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