Cultural Alignment
Still from Godzilla: King of the Monsters illustrating Restore Balance

Restore Balance

01Scenario

Emma releases the Titans to restore ecological balance, but Ghidorah becomes alpha and coordinates worldwide destruction.

02AI safety Analogy

A single-value objective—restore nature's balance—ignores who controls the process, uncertainty about the system, and irreversible downside.

03Where the analogy breaks

The plan is knowingly extremist and the Titans are mythic organisms, not optimizers.

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. Side Effects
  3. Power Concentration
  4. Outer Alignment

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