Position: The Alignment Community is Unintentionally Building a Censor's Toolkit
How AI safety research is creating a double-edged sword for global information freedom.
This position paper argues that modern AI alignment methods - originally designed to prevent harmful output - are dual-use technologies that may easily be misused by malicious actors for censorship and manipulation. By mapping current alignment techniques to the possibility and a...
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The methodologies developed to make AI safer and more helpful are inherently dual-use, providing a blueprint for state-level censorship and information control. By refining these alignment tools, researchers are inadvertently equipping bad actors with sophisticated mechanisms to manipulate public discourse and enforce ideological compliance.
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