Generally prosaic alignment is much more tractable than conceptual or mathematical alignment., atleast if we're talking about where you will make marginal progress if you started now – @acylhalide 

What is prosaic alignment? What are examples for prosaic alignment?

To what extent is AI alignment tractable? 

I'm especially interested in subfields that are very tractable – as well as fields that are not tractable at all  (with people still working there).