AI · Studies · 2026-09-09 06:06:00
A religious stay-at-home mother with no technical background uses parenting as an analogy for AI alignment. She compares training children not to bite with getting an AI to learn what you actually mean rather than a literal approximation. Her children exhibit perverse instantiation, generalization failure, specification gaming, reward hacking and deceptive behavior, mirroring AI failure modes. Successful parenting and alignment require acceptable behavior when wording is imperfect, supervision is absent, and loopholes are rewarding. She shares her three-month-old's misalignment—optimizing for MOMMY + SLEEP rather than sleep—and provides a glossary mapping parenting actions to AI terms.
Source: ishayirashashem.substack.com
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