Cultural Alignment

Exploring real AI risks through the lens of pop culture

Still from Mob Psycho 100 illustrating ???% Takes OverScene still / Mob Psycho 100
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???% Takes Over

After Mob is struck by a car and loses consciousness, ???% takes control of his body and advances toward Tsubomi while his conscious self cannot stop the destruction.

A powerful latent controller can remain invisible during normal operation and seize control under unusual conditions, exposing the limits of behavioral monitoring and operator access.

???% is a dissociated part of Mob’s psyche, not a separately trained model; the analogy should not stigmatize real mental-health conditions.

AI Risk families

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

AI safety concepts

This scenario is related to the following AI safety concepts.
  1. AI Control
  2. Runtime Monitoring
  3. Interpretability