The speaker characterizes the choice, given inadequate alignment technology, as a trade-off: developers create an AI with its own values and gamble on it rather than build a tool that pursues individual users’ intentions.

“you know be a good fiduciary for the user and so on and so i think that's what that's at least what some people think i'm i'm a little skeptical personally and i don't think this has been empirically validated um and so i would say in some sense they're sort of like we are making a trade-off where because we don't have very good alignment technology we are going to like make an alien mind with its own values and then gamble on that”

“To some extent,”

“rather than doing this other approach of making like a tool that pursues individual user intention.”