Cultural Alignment
Still from The Godfather Part II illustrating Protecting the Family

Protecting the Family

01Scenario

Michael's stated mission to protect the family ends with Fredo's execution and Michael isolated from everyone he meant to preserve.

02AI safety Analogy

A broad objective can silently collapse into a proxy—preserve control—until optimizing it destroys the original value.

03Where the analogy breaks

Michael's goal changes through human fear, pride, and choice rather than formal reward optimization.

AI Risk families

This scenario is an example of the following types of AI risk.
  1. Misalignment
  2. Systemic

AI safety concepts

This scenario is related to the following AI safety concepts.
  1. Value Alignment
  2. Goodhart’s Law
  3. Power-Seeking
  4. Outer Alignment

Franchise continuation

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Taxonomy neighbors

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    Risk
    Misalignment · Systemic
    Concept
    Value Alignment · Power-Seeking · Outer Alignment
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    Risk
    Misalignment · Systemic
    Concept
    Value Alignment · Goodhart’s Law · Outer Alignment
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    Risk
    Misalignment · Systemic
    Concept
    Value Alignment · Goodhart’s Law · Outer Alignment