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A korrentour reading

True AI alignment is impossible because obedience and benevolence are fundamentally incompatible goals.

Drawn from what Noah Smith said

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What Noah Smith actually said

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    Noah Smith 1 Sept 2026

    AI alignment will forever be balancing the tradeoff between paperclip-maximizing and disempowerment, because these two rival concepts of alignment are fundamentally incompatible.

    Roundup #87: Technology BAD!!noahpinion.blog

First recorded here 1 Sept 2026 · How quotes work

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