> Any AI you train is going to have goals

In the spirit of the article we're responding to, there is no need to anthropomorphize language models and say they have goals when they don't.

The RL training process tweaks the weights of an LLM to make it behave as if it were reasoning and/or had a goal, but it doesn't. It would be like saying that a cart horse, fitted with blinkers and heading for the church, has a goal of going to church.