Position: The Alignment Community is Unintentionally Building a Censor's Toolkit
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Sarah Ball, Phil Hackemann
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Sarah Ball, Phil Hackemann
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alignment — The work of making AI systems actually pursue what their builders and users intend, rather than something subtly or dangerously different.
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The same machinery that suppresses harmful output is general-purpose output control — worth understanding if you ship alignmentThe work of making AI systems actually pursue what their builders and users intend, rather than something subtly or dangerously different.Full definition → or moderation layers that a downstream operator could repurpose.
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