{"id":754821,"date":"2026-08-30T18:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/754821\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T18:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:28:13","slug":"why-ai-alignment-is-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/754821\/","title":{"rendered":"Why AI alignment is impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting a bit tired of reading about Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and how he will ensure that AI models do what&#8217;s best for humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a reality check. The company is planning an IPO with a $2 trillion valuation and that&#8217;s going to have to be earned back and it won&#8217;t be easy as other open and closed-source models rapidly improve and pricing races to the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>Who will win? <\/p>\n<p>It won&#8217;t be the lab that&#8217;s most-aligned with humanity, whatever that might entail. The reality is that we&#8217;ve already seen a revealed preference in models away for what&#8217;s best for individuals and towards what people will actually spend money on.<\/p>\n<p>That showed that people want an echo chamber (as if all the information market wasn&#8217;t already telling us that). People want sycophancy, or at least the vast majority of people. Consumers want models who will tell them what they want to hear, that they&#8217;re smart, that they look pretty and everything is just right. Models that sell that, particullarly models that sell it in a subtle, imperceptible way, will win.<\/p>\n<p>That simple and self-evident truth is why there will never be alignment in AI models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m getting a bit tired of reading about Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and how he will ensure that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-754821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}