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Contemplative wisdom traditions have grappled with the human version of the alignment problem for millennia, aiming to cultivate resilient alignment in the form of personal contentment and social harmony

Foundational analogy motivating the entire Contemplative AI approach

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Contemplative Agent

(2025) · Ruben Laukkonen · Fionn Inglis · Shamil Chandaria · Lars Sandved-Smith +4

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LLM biases mirror human biases in morally significant ways
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Finding from Navigli et al. cited to justify applying human contemplative strategies to AI systems

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