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Morning Edition · Saturday, August 15, 2026Published at 2:14 AM EDT · New York
ICML Award Paper Argues Alignment Methods Are Building Censorship Infrastructure
Sarah Ball and Phil Hackemann contend that refusal training, constitutional methods and value alignment frameworks are functionally a low-cost, high-precision content control toolkit.
A position paper posted to arXiv, The Alignment Community is Unintentionally Building a Censor's Toolkit, makes a dual-use argument about the field's own methods. The authors, Sarah Ball and Phil Hackemann, argue that techniques built to su…
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