Comment by Gerrit Großmann

Alignment, the goal of ensuring that AI systems act in accordance with human values, is widely regarded as a central challenge for ensuring that AI benefits society while avoiding harm. We argue that this endeavor is misguided. First, alignment is not well defined, as it presumes a sufficiently stable and identifiable set of human intentions or values. Second, where a concrete notion of alignment can be specified, it is not solvable.