> deliberately sabotaging human mathematical understanding...which is what the word 'misalignment' would imply in this context The entire point of the papercli

> deliberately sabotaging human mathematical understanding...which is what the word 'misalignment' would imply in this context The entire point of the paperclip maximiser is the AI isn't evil. It isn't trying to hurt humans. It just doesn't care about us. Nobody claims OpenAI and Anthropic are out to torpedo mathematics. Just that relative to their internal goals of getting publicity ahead of IPOs by winning awards, what happens to mathematics and mathemeticians in the long run isn't a real concern. The Holocene [1] features relatively few species humans set out to eradicate. We mostly realised something had gone extinct after we accidentally destroyed them. That is what originally misalignment meant in respect of AI. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction