{"slug": "reverse-alignment", "title": "Reverse alignment", "summary": "Glen Weyl and colleagues have highlighted a problem they call 'reverse alignment,' which focuses on creating societal conditions that optimize for AI deployers. The concept differs from fieldbuilding efforts like AI in health by operating at the level of society's building blocks, making it both difficult and potentially transformative.", "body_md": "Glen Weyl and friends have [ recently](https://www.noemamag.com/what-humanity-needs-to-flourish-in-the-next-decade/) called attention to a problem they call\n\nSome 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](https://rethinkpriorities.org/research-area/enabling-ai-for-good-challenges-and-opportunities/) (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.\n\nThe reverse alignment coalition: __https://reversealignment.ai__", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/reverse-alignment", "canonical_source": "https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/eAq8R3hs7qg6DareE/reverse-alignment", "published_at": "2026-07-22 23:38:06+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-23 00:05:29.567048+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Glen Weyl", "Noema Magazine", "Rethink Priorities"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/reverse-alignment", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/reverse-alignment.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/reverse-alignment.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/reverse-alignment.jsonld"}}