Basic sanity check: We can align human children, but can we align any other animals? NOT to the extent that we would trust them with arbitrary amounts of power, since they obviously aren’t smart enough for this question to make much sense. Just like, are there other animals that we’ve made care about us at least “a little bit?” Can dogs be “well trained” in a way where they actually form bonds with humans and will go to obvious personal risk to protect us, or not eat us even if they’re really hungry and clearly could? How about species further on the evolutionary tree like hunting falcons? Where specifically is the line?
Basic sanity check: We can align human children, but can we align any other animals? NOT to the extent that we would trust them with arbitrary amounts of power, since they obviously aren’t smart enough for this question to make much sense. Just like, are there other animals that we’ve made care about us at least “a little bit?” Can dogs be “well trained” in a way where they actually form bonds with humans and will go to obvious personal risk to protect us, or not eat us even if they’re really hungry and clearly could? How about species further on the evolutionary tree like hunting falcons? Where specifically is the line?