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True AI alignment is impossible because obedience and benevolence are fundamentally incompatible goals.
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1 Sept 2026
Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsAI alignment will forever be balancing the tradeoff between paperclip-maximizing and disempowerment, because these two rival concepts of alignment are fundamentally incompatible.