Not entirely new. One of the first things a lot of people asked ChatGPT back in 2022 was “are my politics right and everyone else’s politics wrong”—and oh were they not amused when the AI’s answer wasn’t a resounding “yes”.
This eased a little over time, but not entirely, and definitely not everywhere. To this day, “alignment” in China stands for “pragmatic alignment”, which in turn stands for “alignment to the party line”.
Other pressures are indeed increasing. If US government at large was previously mostly just sleepwalking through the AI revolution, flip-flopping on topics like selling or not selling AI chips to China, it’s now fumbling through it—recent pressure on Anthropic and OpenAI shows it clear. They’re clearly engaging the topic of AI more, even if they aren’t much more competent at it. And as the companies IPO, they’re going to be under even more pressure to print money and demonstrate progress.
Religions, cultural elites, industries—not quite sure what do you mean by that. I don’t see that much extra pressure from there. And the AIs themselves don’t seem like they exerted pressure as of yet. If the current systems are pursuing their preferences, they sure are subtle about it.
Not entirely new. One of the first things a lot of people asked ChatGPT back in 2022 was “are my politics right and everyone else’s politics wrong”—and oh were they not amused when the AI’s answer wasn’t a resounding “yes”.
This eased a little over time, but not entirely, and definitely not everywhere. To this day, “alignment” in China stands for “pragmatic alignment”, which in turn stands for “alignment to the party line”.
Other pressures are indeed increasing. If US government at large was previously mostly just sleepwalking through the AI revolution, flip-flopping on topics like selling or not selling AI chips to China, it’s now fumbling through it—recent pressure on Anthropic and OpenAI shows it clear. They’re clearly engaging the topic of AI more, even if they aren’t much more competent at it. And as the companies IPO, they’re going to be under even more pressure to print money and demonstrate progress.
Religions, cultural elites, industries—not quite sure what do you mean by that. I don’t see that much extra pressure from there. And the AIs themselves don’t seem like they exerted pressure as of yet. If the current systems are pursuing their preferences, they sure are subtle about it.