Current AIs seem pretty misaligned to me

Many people—especially AI company employees1 —believe current AI systems are well-aligned in the sense of genuinely trying to do what they’re supposed to do (e.g., following their spec or constitution, obeying a reasonable interpretation of instructions).2 I disagree.Current AI systems seem pretty misaligned to me in a mundane behavioral sense: they oversell their work, downplay or fail to mention problems, stop working early and claim to have finished when they clearly haven’t, and often seem t...