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Australian Staff Software Engineer at GitHub who works on AI products and writes about AI and software engineering.
As I see it, solving alignment for LLMs isn’t just impossible, it’s incoherent: we can’t even articulate what it would look like to succeed.
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Sean Goedecke, “Reliably aligning LLMs is impossible in principle,” November 2, 2026.
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AI Verified The quote explicitly says solving LLM alignment is impossible, directly addressing whether AI alignment is solvable. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-6.1-sol · 1h ago
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