Paper 40 · VI. AI Alignment & Structural Limits

Working as Designed

In production (complete)

Explains alignment failure without malfunction.

Function in corpus

Corrects common AI safety misdiagnosis.

Details

• Key move: "Alignment" is a regime-relative concept whose coherence depends on the continued presence - or explicit relocation - of witnessing and answerability. • Corpus role: The convergence paper for the governance and alignment arcs. • Scope note: The governance and alignment arcs needed a terminal paper that stated the structural limit clearly.

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