Philosophically, I want to thank @kulveit.bsky.social and his colleagues for their work on 'gradual disempowerments' in the alignment debate. I especially am indebted to the work of @add-hawk.bsky.social whose notion of value capture is explored as one mechanism behind the RAP.
Conceptually, this work is indebted to the work of @cwarzel.bsky.social, @chaykak.bsky.social and @karenhao.bsky.social, among many others, whose reporting deeply informed my approach to the topic of alignment.
Though this is likely whatever stage comes two stages after late-stage capitalism.
I'm very excited to announce my first Postdoctoral publication in AI & Society entitled 'The Message Hidden Within the Pattern: A Reverse Alignment Problem for Debates in Artificial Intelligence'.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
It feels like, at long last, the half-jocular, half-serious end point of the rhetorical question 'what stage of capitalism is this?' has finally been reached with this product.
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I explore how the value landscape to which AI is being aligned is characterized by value capture and flattening. I suggest that this 'flattening' establishes a context in which AI alignment occurs - achieving alignment in the 'reverse direction' by humans adapting to machines.