Comment by Bailey Flanigan

AI alignment is a tricky question because I don't think that it is a monolith. One category of examples is when AI is being privately built for a public experience, such as chatbots, recommender systems, or self-driving cars. Another really different class of AI alignment problems that people have been interested in are for public decision systems, possibly maybe replacing street-level bureaucracy. This could include how we allocate housing, do kidney matching or do risk assessment in courts. These situations have really different governance contexts, different stakes, and different expectations when it comes to who is really entitled to a say and what happens. Unverified source (2026)