{
  "id": 19127,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12372",
  "title": "Position: We Need Practical AI Alignment Methods to Mirror Human Reasoning",
  "summary": "arXiv:2608.12372v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI systems are increasingly employed as decision aids, decision delegates, or autonomous decision-makers. This position paper argues that in many settings, particularly high-stakes decision-making, we need accurate cognitively-aligned AI systems that reason similarly to their users, and faithfully communicate their reasoning. We review evidence that cognitive alignment improves understandability and trustworthiness, and provide new survey data sh",
  "authors": "Vijay Keswani, Breanna K. Nguyen, Cyrus Cousins, Vincent Conitzer, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Jana Schaich Borg",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "safety-alignment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-14T04:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-14T05:10:49.168Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-cscy",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.CY",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19127",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12372",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}