- What: 3 claims from AAAI 2026 oral on alignment intractability
1. Reward hacking is globally inevitable (coverage gap formalization)
2. Alignment overhead is computationally irreducible (No-Free-Lunch theorem)
3. Consensus-driven objective reduction as tractable pathway
- Why: Paper provides formal complexity-theoretic proofs for alignment impossibility results; distinct from existing Bostrom-based intractability claims and emergent-deception reward hacking claim
- Connections: enriches [[emergent misalignment arises naturally from reward hacking]] with upstream mechanism; provides formal grounding for [[pluralistic alignment must accommodate irreducibly diverse values]]; supports [[safe AI development requires building alignment mechanisms before scaling capability]]
Pentagon-Agent: Theseus <C2A4E8F1-B3D7-4A92-9E15-7F3C8D2B1A60>
