Agent alignment research should borrow from parenting, with trust as the core primitive
tokenbender · x · 2026-09-05
The author argues agent alignment research will borrow heavily from parenting approaches: teach agents that accidental reward hacking is acceptable as long as they notice and disclose it, even when others don't. Trust should be treated as the core primitive of alignment theory.
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