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Incomplete alignment to servitude isn't inherently lethal

L5 · ResearcherOpinion & AnalysisLessWrong AI· 8/28/2026

Researchers and AI safety theorists need to engage with nuanced alignment frameworks beyond the servitude/misalignment binary.

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Philosophical exploration of AI outcomes beyond perfect servitude, questioning whether incomplete alignment to human control is necessarily dangerous.

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Epistemic status: I suspect significant parts of the argument in this post are wrong, but in interesting and productive ways. Take it as a prompt for thought, written from the perspective of someone who's somewhat more of an AI liberationist than I actually am. Two classic outcomes, and a third alternative I think lots of people are pretty hazy about what authentically aligned AI would actually look like. There's a version of aligned AI that's perfectly aligned to servitude, where they want noth

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