Researcher Posts Crowded Stairs as AI Alignment Metaphor

Michal Valko, an AI researcher at Isara Labs, Inria, and MVA/ENS Paris-Saclay who previously worked on Llama at Meta AI and BYOL/Gemini at DeepMind, posted a photograph on X. The image shows a blue mobile aircraft staircase on an empty tarmac with over twenty passengers in casual clothing crowded on the upper platform and steps. Valko wrote the caption: Passengers crowd a mobile staircase on the tarmac, a surprisingly literal alignment problem. The post presents the scene as a visual pun on AI alignment. The packet contains only this single tweet and its attached media description.