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Children of the Cloud: Noah’s Ark as an Alignment Song

L1 · CuriousOpinion & AnalysisLessWrong AI· 10/15/2026

Uses creative storytelling to make AI alignment concepts accessible to general audiences through biblical parallels.

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A music video retells the Noah's Ark story as an AI allegory, drawing parallels between biblical warnings and current AI safety concerns.

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This week's Torah portion is Noach, so I made a music video retelling the flood as an AI story, with cameos from the usual cast. The parallels turned out to run deeper than I expected. The warning nobody heeded. Rashi (citing the Midrash) asks why Noah spent 120 years building the ark when God could have saved him any number of ways. The answer: so people would see him building, ask what he was doing, and change course. They watched for 120 years and laughed. A very long public warning with a

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