Cultural Alignment: OSS project exploring AI risks through cultural analogies

[u/fisch0920]

i've been exploring ways to try and make abstract AI risks feel more real. more visceral. more familiar. especially to a broader audience since most people worried about this stuff are still pretty niche.

so i created an OSS project which looks at scenes from popular movies/shows/anime as analogies through an AI safety lens. eg reframing famous scenes through an AI safety lens to learn about AI risks and concepts from AI safety in a more familiar, accessible way that i hope will resonate with a more general audience.

disclosure: note that i'm not trying to monetize this at all; this is purely a FOSS educational resource that i thought aligned well w/ this subreddit's vibes. i used AI to help source scenario ideas, fill out the metadata, and iterate on the site, but i've hand curated all of the content over many sessions to keep the quality bar high.

would love any feedback you have on the project && thanks 🙏

• site: https://cultural-alignment.com
• open source: https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/cultural-alignment
• open data: https://transitive-bs.notion.site/Cultural-Alignment-Data-3c6edb27f124801f8c10edc3c80b4e10

[u/Coconibz]

Cool project. This is probably not the best feedback after you've already bought the domain, but are you sure about the phrase cultural alignment? To me it sounds more reflective of the nature of a certain type of alignment, the way that Simon Goldstein and Peter Salib use the term, and seems to make less sense as a reference to cultural depictions of alignment. I would go instead with something like "Alignment in Culture," or if you're looking for something cleaner, maybe like "Pop Alignment." But those are just spitballs.

[u/fisch0920 → u/Coconibz]

appreciate the feedback, and i agree it's not an ideal name. was just trying to have something catchy for an mvp release

thanks for the link to the published work as well; hadn't seen that before

thanks again 🙏