I’d rather put it that resolving that problem is a prerequisite for the notion of “alignment problem” to be meaningful in the first place. It’s not technically a contradiction to have an “aligned” superintelligence that does nothing, but clearly nobody would in practice be satisfied with that.
I’d rather put it that resolving that problem is a prerequisite for the notion of “alignment problem” to be meaningful in the first place. It’s not technically a contradiction to have an “aligned” superintelligence that does nothing, but clearly nobody would in practice be satisfied with that.
you can have an alignment problem without humans. E.g. two strawberries problem.