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Relative Principals, Pluralistic Alignment, and the Structural Value Alignment Problem

The value alignment problem for artificial intelligence (AI) is often framed as a purely technical or normative challenge, sometimes focused on hypothetical future systems. I argue that the problem is better understood as a structural question about governance: not whether an AI system is aligned in the abstract, but whether it is aligned enough, for whom, and at what cost. Drawing on the principal-agent framework from economics, this paper reconceptualises misalignment as arising along three in

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Published: 22 April 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Regulation · Safety & alignment · Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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