Reverse alignment

Published on July 22, 2026 11:38 PM GMTGlen Weyl and friends have recently called attention to a problem they call reverse alignment. While they think the AI alignment issue is important, they argue that most people in the space neglect thinking about the institutions that would interface with advanced AI capabilities (especially if aligned). In brief, something like wrong institutions + aligned, advanced AI = likely worse outcomes. This seems plausible, and it intersects with some emerging EA i...