The speaker characterizes alignment risk as growing exponentially and illustrates it with a training task in which a model is asked to book a tennis court when none is available.

“... because, uh, it, it's just such a exponentially growing risk factor. I always like to think of, um, simple anal- analogy where let's imagine I ask, uh, during training time the model to do a task, which is to book a tennis court, and there's no available tennis court when-whenever the model decides to do that task.”