3 papers
cs.AI2026
Positive Alignment: Artificial Intelligence for Human Flourishing
Ruben Laukkonen, Seb Krier, Chloé Bakalar +13
Existing alignment research is dominated by concerns about safety and preventing harm: safeguards, controllability, and compliance. This paradigm of alignment parallels early psych…
q-bio.NC2026
The Complex Brain Hypothesis: Resolving the Entropy-Content Conundrum in Minimal Phenomenal Experience
Jonas Mago, Edmundo Lopez-Sola, Jakub Vohryzek +4
Minimal Phenomenal Experiences (MPEs) are states of consciousness in which wakefulness is preserved but phenomenal content is low or absent. The Entropic Brain Hypothesis (EBH) is…
cs.AI2025
Contemplative Artificial Intelligence
Ruben Laukkonen, Fionn Inglis, Shamil Chandaria +5
As artificial intelligence (AI) improves, traditional alignment strategies may falter in the face of unpredictable self-improvement, hidden subgoals, and the sheer complexity of in…