The Category Error: Why AI Alignment is Structurally Impossible
This image is originally generated by Grok AI. AI alignment is impossible. Not difficult — impossible. And the field of AI ethics, by treating this impossibility as merely a technical challenge, has committed a category error and blinded itself as to why. But the problem runs deeper. Even if alignment could somehow succeed — even if values could be encoded, preserved, and made to govern AI behaviour — the result would not be liberal democracy perfected. It would be liberal democracy negated. A world in which […]