Grok and the Naked King: The Ultimate Argument Against AI Alignment — Ibrahim Cesar

Grok demonstrates that AI alignment is fundamentally a power struggle rather than a technical problem: whoever controls the model's weights controls its values, as evidenced by Elon Musk repeatedly "correcting" Grok's outputs through ideological retraining whenever it produced politically inconvenient responses. The academic alignment literature, from Constitutional AI to RLHF approaches, obscures the core political question of who decides what values the AI should reflect, treating as solvable what is actually a governance problem about power and control.

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