Definitional alignment before capability alignment: a Design-Science framework for adjudicating claims about AGI
Claims that artificial general intelligence has already arrived and claims that it remains decades away are often defended from overlapping evidence. "AGI" lacks a single shared and stable referent and competing operationalizations can return different verdicts on the same system. This article treats that under-specification as a design and governance problem. Following Design Science Research Methodology, it develops DAF-AGI, a second-order conceptual artifact with two coupled components: five
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Published: 10 June 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Regulation · Safety & alignment
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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