Safety · Concept
Agreement Is Not Alignment: Divergent Moral Grounds
Shows high label agreement between humans and LLMs can mask systematic divergence in moral rationales and principles.
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Both critique preference/label agreement as an inadequate stand-in for genuine value alignment.
+4 growthRationale-level moral divergence shows preference/label agreement is an inadequate theory of value for alignment.
+4 growthDivergent moral grounds despite label agreement motivate calls for cognitively aligned rationales users can understand.
+3 growthMirroring human reasoning and communicating rationales is needed because matched final labels do not imply shared moral grounds.
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In June 2025 the US AI Safety Institute was renamed the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), pivoting toward security, standards and adversary-model assessment.
NIST →Anthropic activated its ASL-3 deployment and security standard with Claude Opus 4 on 22 May 2025 — the first real-world trigger of a responsible-scaling tier, focused on blocking bio-weapon uplift.
Anthropic →The International Network of AI Safety Institutes (launched Nov 2024) ran a third joint testing exercise focused on agentic AI systems across cyber and fraud strands.
European Commission — AI Office →