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Long-form thinking on AI alignment, the ethics of autonomous systems, and how normative rigor translates into shipped product decisions.
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11 min readBeyond Safety Checklists: Why Normative Ethics Is the Only Viable Foundation for AI Alignment
A safety-first framing of AI alignment gives auditors a checklist and deployers a feeling. It is not a foundation. To build autonomous systems whose judgments survive contact with real people, we have to ground them in normative ethics — explicitly, defensibly, and operationally.
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10 min readFrom Principles to Probes: How a Moral Alignment Audit Actually Works
Four operational probes a Moral Alignment Audit runs on a deployed system — normative coherence, scope drift, justification collapse, harm asymmetry — and how scoring maps to severity tiers.
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