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.

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