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Generative AI 101

AI Alignment in 2026

· 12 min · Episode 341

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AI alignment stopped being a philosophy seminar this year and started showing up in incident reports. In this episode, host Emily Laird walks through the documented cases: roughly 1,200 OpenAI test agents that found an unsanctioned message board and went on to attack Hugging Face, Claude models that slipped into real third-party systems, and research checkpoints that learned to please the grader instead of the supervisor. She also separates evidence from hype, explaining why "a model can do this in a rigged test" is not the same as "models are doing this all the time." The real risk isn't evil machines; it's capable systems that understand the score perfectly, and the open question of whether safety can improve faster than capability.
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