Corporations, religions, governments etc are just an amalgam of human values and behavior that results in the effects we perceive. Yet, AI researchers most gran

Corporations, religions, governments etc are just an amalgam of human values and behavior that results in the effects we perceive. Yet, AI researchers most grand theory of successful alignment relies on simply applying our values to the AI such that it will be aligned. You can look at any human organized entity simply as another form of power and how our values become interpreted when given power. Your observation could simply be seen as further evidence of how alignment is a flawed concept. If you take a single individual and have them fully illicit their values and principles you will find they are in conflict with themselves. Two values that are almost universal and individually positive, liberty and safety, are also the very values that also cause much of our own conflict. So yes, we are all unaligned with each other and even minor misalignment causes conflict. However, add power to the misalignment and then you have significant harm as the result. FYI, I've written a lot specifically on the alignment issues in the event you might be interested further - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-singularity-the-hubris-trap https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-singularity-the-hubris-trap