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PublishedApril 14, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Principles Do Not Apply Themselves: A Hermeneutic Perspective on AI Alignment
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arXiv:2604.10673v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI alignment is often framed as the task of ensuring that an AI system follows a set of stated principles or human preferences, but general principles rarely determine their own application in concrete cases. When principles conflict, when they are too
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