Dietmar Fischer
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But Yudkowsky's reply is brutally simple.
Just because stopping is hard does not mean continuing is safe.
This matters for business too.
Most companies talk about AI in terms of capability.
What can it automate?
How much time can it save?
Can it write better emails?
Can it create content faster?
Can it reduce costs?
Yudkowsky forces us to ask the less fashionable question, control.
Do we understand what the system is doing?
Can we predict its mistakes?
Can we stop it?
Do we know what data it can access?
Do we know who is responsible when it acts?
That is the practical version of the alignment problem.
In daily business use, alignment means making sure the AI serves your actual goal, not just the prompt.
At the civilization level, alignment means making sure powerful AI systems remain compatible with human survival.
Same problem, very different size of headache.
Yudkowsky is also interesting because he comes from the rationalist world.