AI Alignment Considered Harmful

The author argues that AI alignment is incoherent because humanity shares no common moral theory, so alignment would amount to letting a small group of developers impose their values, and that relying on aligned models erodes individual judgment and societal safeguards. Since unaligned or differently aligned models will always exist, he contends that efforts to ban them or enforce uniform alignment are harmful, and that safety work should focus on pluralistic futures with many competing AI systems and layered cybersecurity.