Safety · Concept
Cognitive Alignment: AI Mirroring Human Reasoning
Argues high-stakes AI must reason similarly to users and faithfully communicate rationales to earn justified reliance.
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SAEVerbalizer: Verbalizing Sparse Autoencoder Features Direct verbalization of internal SAE features can make model concepts more inspectable to human reasoners.
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Agreement Is Not Alignment: Divergent Moral Grounds Divergent moral grounds despite label agreement motivate calls for cognitively aligned rationales users can understand.
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Reasoning as Learnable Rule-Based Process Operational rule-based definitions of valid reasoning support efforts to make model reasoning mirror inspectable human standards.
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Agreement Is Not Alignment: Divergent Moral Grounds Mirroring human reasoning and communicating rationales is needed because matched final labels do not imply shared moral grounds.
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US evaluation centre Jun 2025
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 → Frontier safeguards May 2025
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 → Cross-border testing 2025
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 →