Scaling AI systems with unresolved, compounding alignment contradictions introduces systemic risk that current feedback and governance structures are not equipped to manage. If those same systems cannot confront the challenges and failure modes they engineer, then AI technology, as it is currently being developed, is not viable.
AGI or Artificial General Intelligence is a narrative, not a functional or sustainable
target or benchmark. As an assumption of capability, the AGI framework does
not directly confront or address the challenges of AI alignment, safety and sustainability.
The problem isn’t only that competing alignment functions compound risks and alignment
failures as development scales, it is the absence of functional feedback loops that resolve
those conflicts at the structural level that accelerate and exacerbate those failures.
