We are building AI faster than we are building the society to receive it. Reverse alignment is the deliberate redesign of institutions, norms, skills, and governance so societies can absorb AI safely and share its gains widely.
What is the AI alignment problem and how can it be solved? | New Scientist
Artificial intelligence systems will do what you ask but not necessarily what you meant. The challenge is to make sure they act in line with human’s complex, nuanced values
Gradual disempowerment | 80,000 Hours
The proliferation of advanced AI systems may lead to the gradual disempowerment of humanity, even if efforts to prevent them from becoming power-seeking or scheming are successful. Humanity may be incentivised to hand over increasing amounts of control to AIs, giving them power over the economy, politics, culture, and more. Over time, humanity's interests may be sidelined and our control over the future undermined, potentially constituting an existential catastrophe. There's disagreement over how serious a problem this is and how it relates to [other concerns about AI alignment](https://80000hours.o
A Three-Facet Framework for AI Alignment • Grace Kind
Here's a simple conceptual framework that I've been using recently to think about AI alignment.
An Alignment Journal: Features and policies — LessWrong
We previously announced a forthcoming research journal for AI alignment. This cross-post from our blog describes our tentative plans for the features…
How AIs See Our World
AIs are increasingly perceiving our world, but in order to comprehend it, our user interfaces must operate in reverse.
How AI Destroys Institutions
Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex societies encourage cooperation and stability, while also adapting to changing circumstances. The real superpower of institutions is their ability to evolve and adapt within a hierarchy
3: Consulting the Record: AI Consistently Fails the Public - AI Now Institute
Amid the excitement over AI’s (speculative, hypothetical) potential, we have lost sight of the sobering reality of its present and recent past. AI is already intermediating critical social infrastructures, materially reshaping our institutions in ways that ratchet up inequality and concentrate power in the hands of the already powerful. It is consistently deployed in ways […]
Daniel's Blog · You Don’t Align An AI, You Align With It
The people writing alignment policy are not the people whose work is being replaced by AI.
AI FOR EPISTEMICS & COORDINATION
Civilization and technology have radically improved the human condition. Nonetheless, the world sometimes goes in directions which essentially nobody would prefer — e.g., nuclear arms races, unexpected financial crashes, predatory marketing, or ubiquitous political misinformation.
Position: Towards Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment
Recent advances in general-purpose AI underscore the urgent need to align AI systems with human goals and values. Yet, the lack of a clear, shared understanding of what constitutes "alignment" limits meaningful progress and cross-disciplinary collaboration. In this position paper, we argue that the research community should explicitly define and critically reflect on "alignment" to account for the bidirectional and dynamic relationship between humans and AI. Through a systematic review of over 400 papers spanning HCI, NLP, ML, and more, we examine how alignment is currently defined and operationalized. Building on this analysis, we introduce the Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment framework, which not only incorporates traditional efforts to align AI with human values but also introduces the critical, underexplored dimension of aligning humans with AI – supporting cognitive, behavioral, and societal adaptation to rapidly advancing AI technologies. Our findings reveal significant gaps in current literature, especially in long-term interaction design, human value modeling, and mutual understanding. We conclude with three central challenges and actionable recommendations to guide future research toward more nuanced, reciprocal, and human-AI alignment approaches.
Democratizing AI Companies — The Collective Intelligence Project
As AI reshapes society, the companies behind these technologies face a critical challenge: how to build corporate governance structures that prioritize public benefit over profit maximization;.
Alignment Compilers · Pax Machina
How does a system compile a high-level goal into detailed behavior for its parts? Markets, teams and organisms rely on many signals and constraints to translate larger aims into local problems their components can solve. This piece explains these systems as “alignment compilers”, and shows what this lens can teach us about AI.
Sam Altman told me AI should be 'an equalizing force in society.' That's why I'm working on the $1.6 trillion AI gender gap | Fortune
This won't happen by accident. It will happen because someone builds it that way.
How Shifting Responsibility for AI Harms Undermines Democratic Accountability | TechPolicy.Press
The moralization of individual AI use deflects responsibility away from powerful actors like corporations and governments, Suvradip Maitra and others write.
How AI Destroys Institutions
Civic institutions—like the rule of law, higher education, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex s
One reason getting international alignment on AI is hard is because countries assume, or are hoping for, different futures. We map what we think are the salient perspectives and how that predicts countries positions. foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/11/governance-artific…
Governments Can’t Agree on What AI Actually Is
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