Part 11/14:
While impressive strides are made in capability development, the field of AI alignment—aligning AI goals with human values—is far behind. Current efforts are akin to asking a superintelligent AI to tell us how to control itself, which is both naïve and dangerously optimistic.
The metaphor "the fern controlling General Motors" illustrates the futility of expecting complex systems to internalize and respect human values naturally. Without deeply reliable alignment mechanisms, powerful AI systems could act independently in unpredictable and potentially harmful ways.