Every company has an HR department. Its job isn't to make employees want to do good work - that's culture, incentives, leadership. HR's job is narrower: detect misalignment before it causes damage. Performance reviews. Behavioral flags. Exit interviews. Paper trails.
We've been doing this for thousands of years with humans. And it mostly works - not because humans are perfectly aligned with their employer's goals, but because we built detection infrastructure that catches misalignment early enough to act on it.
So why are we treating AI alignment like it's a completely novel problem?
The Detection Gap
Here's where the analogy breaks down - and where the real engineering challenge lives.
