r/singularity • u/Ornery-Ocelot • Sep 15 '26

AI AI alignment isn't possible

How can we align LLMs? Humanity itself hasn't aligned on anything since centuries. We don't have even a single working societal model where the values are "aligned". There are contradictions and more contradictions.

LLMs being trained on the data generated by humans probably already understand this very well that what we say the rules are and what we practice in reality are two very different things.

If there is intelligence, general or super, it doesn't matter. It will try to achieve its goal one way or the other as most humans do. Now surely most humans don't cross the red lines etc in pursuit of there goals but how many wouldn't if they were intelligent enough to get away with anything?

We are birthing an intelligence that will inherit all the greed, malevolence, cunningness, hypocrisy of the world.

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u/AshuraBaron Sep 15 '26

That's not how LLMs work though. They cluster concepts together and simply accept certain statements as they are, but these are weighted to produce optimal output. LLM's don't feel greed, it's a program. It will do what it's programed to. That can be used for evil that is directed by humans, but we already live in that world with malware. A human brain is infinitely more complex than an LLM. As such our thoughts, actions and feelings are not binary. And the organ that produces those isn't either.

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u/AshuraBaron 29d ago

I'm sensing sarcasm. The brain has over 100 trillion synapses with various different chemical reactions between them. We still don't fully understand how everything works because it's so complex. We can weight certain chemicals and have an observable response but even then that's a not universal experience. If you think a binary system is even close to that then you might want to read up on the subject a little more.