Societal and technological progress as sewing an ever-growing, ever-changing, patchy, and polychrome quilt
Joel Z. Leibo, Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets, William A. Cunningham, Sébastien Krier, Manfred Diaz, Simon Osindero — 2025-05-08 — Google DeepMind — arXiv
Summary
Critiques one-size-fits-all AI alignment approaches that assume rational convergence on single ethics, proposing instead an ‘appropriateness framework’ grounded in conflict theory and institutional economics that embraces persistent moral diversity through contextual grounding, community customization, continual adaptation, and polycentric governance.
Source
- Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05197
- Listed in the Shallow Review of Technical AI Safety 2025 under 1 agenda(s):
- aligned-to-who — Multi-agent first