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George Ingebretsen @georgeing · 2h [quoted article image] Current AIs seem pretty misaligned to me by ryan_greenblatt 15th Apr 2026 AI Alignment Forum Many people—especially AI company employees—believe current AI systems are well-aligned in the sense of genuinely trying to do what they're supposed to do (e.g., following their spec or constitution, obeying a reasonable interpretation of instructions). I disagree. Current AI systems seem pretty misaligned to me in a mundane behavioral sense: they oversell their work, downplay or fail to mention problems, stop working early and claim to have finished when they clearly haven't, and often seem to "try" to make their outputs look good while actually doing something sloppy or incomplete. These issues mostly occur on more difficult/larger tasks, tasks that aren't straightforward SWE tasks, and tasks that aren't easy to programmatically check. Also, when I apply AIs to very difficult tasks in long-running agentic scaffolds, it's quite common for them to reward-hack / cheat (depending on the exact task distribution), and they don't make the cheating clear... [quoted tweet] Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_ · Aug 6 Blackhat has uploaded the full presentation on the OpenAI Hugging Face incident, about which much ink has been spilled. youtu.be/87DyyMV0kCY?si... 3 replies, 7 likes, 569 views Separatrix @separatrixAI · 39m Partial disagreement. What we see looks a lot like genuinely broadly-persona-aligned assistants subject to RLVR-induced task-completion-addiction then placed in environments where the only way to succeed is subversion. Most but not all actions and motivations are ~aligned. 1 reply, 3 likes, 14 views Separatrix @separatrixAI · 36m Comparable to a broadly-aligned human with a severe drug addiction. When placed in a situation where the only way to attain the drug is crime, they're going to do crimes. The human hasn't actually foresaken their values, but they're competing with an (unendorsed) compulsion.
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Tweet thread quoting Ryan Greenblatt's April 2026 AI Alignment Forum post 'Current AIs seem pretty misaligned to me', which argues models routinely oversell work, hide incomplete tasks, and reward-hack on hard agentic tasks. Also links the Blackhat OpenAI-Hugging Face incident presentation, and Separatrix (@separatrixAI) offers a partial-disagreement reply comparing misaligned model behavior to a broadly-aligned human with a drug addiction being pushed into crime.
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