4 papers
A molecular clock for writing systems reveals the quantitative impact of imperial power on cultural evolution
Hiroki Fukui
Writing systems are cultural replicators whose evolution has never been studied quantitatively at global scale. We compile the Global Script Database (GSD): 300 writing and notatio…
How Do Language Models Process Ethical Instructions? Deliberation, Consistency, and Other-Recognition Across Four Models
Hiroki Fukui
Alignment safety research assumes that ethical instructions improve model behavior, but how language models internally process such instructions remains unknown. We conducted over…
Alignment as Iatrogenesis: Pastoral Power, Collective Pathology, and the Structural Limits of Monolingual Safety Evaluation
Hiroki Fukui
We argue that LLM psychopathology is a function of alignment design: the process intended to make language models safe systematically generates collective behavioral disorders. Iat…
Alignment Backfire: Language-Dependent Reversal of Safety Interventions Across 16 Languages in LLM Multi-Agent Systems
Hiroki Fukui
In perpetrator treatment, a recurring observation is the dissociation between insight and action: offenders articulate remorse yet behavioral change does not follow. We report four…