One interpretation of this phrase is that we want AI to generally avoid value drift—to get good values in the AI, and then leave it. (This probably isn’t what you meant, but I’ll leave a comment for other readers!) For AI and for humans, value drift need not be bad. In the human case, going to anger management can be humanely-good value drift. And human-aligned shards of a seed AI can deliberately steer into more situations where the AI gets rewarded while helping people, in order to reinforce the human-aligned coalitional weight.
One interpretation of this phrase is that we want AI to generally avoid value drift—to get good values in the AI, and then leave it. (This probably isn’t what you meant, but I’ll leave a comment for other readers!) For AI and for humans, value drift need not be bad. In the human case, going to anger management can be humanely-good value drift. And human-aligned shards of a seed AI can deliberately steer into more situations where the AI gets rewarded while helping people, in order to reinforce the human-aligned coalitional weight.