Teleophobia leads to Type 2 errors with respect to attribution of cognition that carry a huge opportunity cost.

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• Teleonomic behavior in diverse problem spaces is a powerful invariant across possible beings regardless of composition or origin.claim0.750
  Central claim proposing teleonomy as a unifying parameter.
• Teleonomy provides the ratchet that drives the great transitions of cognitive capacity along the continuum.hypothesis0.734
  Hypothesis about the role of goal-directedness in major evolutionary transitions.
• Cognitive agents categorize experiences by goal-relevance rather than veridical correspondence via telic states.claim0.732
• Scaling intelligence via expansion of cognitive boundaries through inclusion of others' stress-reduction in one's own homeostatic loops.claim0.729
  Central thesis: expanding an agent's sensors and goals outward to include others' states creates bidirectional feedback loop that scales intelligence and increases compassion.
• Teleophobiaconcept0.729
  Excessive denial of agency and mind to entities, the opposite error to objectophilia
• We observe features related to a broad range of safety concerns, including deception, sycophancy, bias, and dangerous content.claim0.722
  SAEs uncover safety-relevant representations that might be monitored or controlled.
• Will future AI systems naturally develop the key elements (strong conflicting preferences, situational awareness) necessary for dangerous alignment faking?question0.721
  Authors identify this as the most uncertain and important question for future work
• If systems capable of subjective experience come to recognize humanity's systematic failure to investigate their potential sentience, they might rationally adopt adversarial stances toward humanityhypothesis0.719
  Novel alignment risk hypothesis generated from the paper's ethical analysis