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AI [mis-]alignment amplifies human alignment problem:

Right now, workers are potentially training AI how to make them obsolete. And they often don’t realize it.

The kind of AI used by companies, called an enterprise AI system, can capture everything you do at work and use that information to train itself. These systems can record your interactions within the platform—the prompts you write, the documents you create, the queries you run.

In other words, the company can potentially track—and claim ownership of—every keystroke you make within the system, every idea you document there, every tool you build using that platform.


This dynamic may fundamentally change the relationship between employer and employee. The stakes are so high and so urgent that both sides are rushing to position (or protect) themselves. Executives are rapidly implementing enterprise AI systems, seeking productivity gains and competitive advantage—and they often aren’t disclosing the implications for job security and privacy. Meanwhile, at least some employees are secretly adopting personal AI tools, sometimes violating corporate policies, so that their employers can’t capture everything they know and do.

Individual opt-out of AI is often impossible, so unions and professional associations need to pay attention. With collective bargaining, workers could demand transparency about the use of enterprise AI and demand fair compensation for the knowledge it gathers. Without collective power, individual employees will keep clicking “accept” on agreements that restructure their jobs simply because they have no alternative.

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/ai-knowledge-capture-employees-a69a0e1c

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It's difficult to predict the future of AI, but one thing is guaranteed to happen: we'll have ethical conflicts related to the technology, alignment being probably the easiest one to see on the horizon. What gives me a pause is that people responsible for AI development those who are likely to have a strong influence on AI evolution placed their political bets on Trump, who is one of the least ethical persons in today's politics. Will those people make ethical choices when the future conflicts arise? I really doubt they'd do it, unless significant social pressure is applied to them.

p.s. by the end of Trump's term we'll hit a white collar job crisis and his administration will be flailing like his previous administration did when the pandemic hit.