Glen Weyl and friends have recently called attention to a problem they call Some of this feels familiar. For example, I’m having a hard time entirely divorcing reverse alignment from efforts to, say, do fieldbuilding around AI and health (meaning creating the conditions so that deployers of health solutions can leverage AI). In both cases, we are thinking about creating conditions that optimize for deployers of AI. The difference, I think, is the level of analysis, where reverse alignment asks us to think at the ‘building blocks of society’ level. If true, this makes it both 1) quite difficult to execute/get right and 2) exponentially more transformative in expectation. More smart people should be working on this.
The reverse alignment coalition: https://reversealignment.ai