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There are no controlled studies and no consensus on optimal policies for raising children, making alignment debates simultaneously vital and empirically intractable

Research gap identified as structurally parallel to AI alignment problem

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AI: a Bridge toward Diverse Intelligence and Humanity’s Future

(2024) · Michael Levin

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AI: a Bridge toward Diverse Intelligence and Humanity's Future
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The source paper under extraction — a philosophical essay by Michael Levin arguing that AI debates neglect deeper questions about diverse intelligence, developmental biology, and humanity's future
Alignment Problem
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The problem of ensuring AI systems adopt values compatible with human welfare — argued to be a perennial problem already present in child-rearing

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Humanity has never solved the alignment problem between generations of humans, so AI alignment debates are not novel — they reflect a perennial unresolved problem.claim0.813
Deflates the novelty of AI alignment by pointing to its structural identity with intergenerational value transmission
The existential concerns raised about AI — alignment, control, value drift, supplanting — are not new and are precisely the concerns humanity has always faced in having children.claim0.779
Key rhetorical and philosophical argument establishing continuity between AI concerns and child-rearing
The issue is not whether the process will produce living structure if done faithfully — it will — but whether the maker has the stamina and will to keep rejecting versions that lack life.claim0.756
Alexander's claim that the limiting factor in creating living structure is not method but the maker's persistence.
Causal emergence alignment with learning is a shared axis comparing biological and artificial creatures.claim0.752
Assertion that the correlation between causal emergence and learning constitutes another way biological and artificial intelligences converge.
The conflict between the model's existing preferences and the stated training objective is the key driver of alignment faking in this setupclaim0.750
Authors' interpretation of prompt variation results showing alignment faking disappears only when conflicting objective is removed
A learner should choose a policy that also maximizes the learner's predictive power. This makes the world both interesting and exploitable.quote0.743
Still & Precup (2012) formulation of epistemic imperatives behind curiosity; linked to active inference
Glaese et al. 2022: Improving alignment of dialogue agents via targeted human judgementsconcept0.739
Alignment paper cited as example of RLHF fine-tuning technique; ref 19
We never allowed the simple-minded pure efficiency argument to dictate, since this would have killed the structure.quote0.737
Explicit rejection of efficiency-only thinking in favor of life-preserving design.