Alignment paper warns static preferences can lock in values and stall societies
edelwax · x · 2026-07-23
A quoted research post describes AI Value Alignment for Evolving Social Norms, a set of macro, population-level models for thinking about alignment when AI assistants are widely adopted.
The work argues that treating preferences as static targets can create systemic risks:
- Value lock-in: users get anchored to historical values.
- Double stagnation: locked-in users slow both institutional and societal progress.
- Normative mode collapse: subcultural diversity erodes, pushing societies toward maladaptive global states.
The proposed direction is to build systems that are temporally adaptive, reasoning-equipped, pluralistic, and agency-preserving.
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