Absolute Alignment Allocation

Published at: https://harpi.org/research/absolute-alignment-allocation/

Absolute Alignment Allocation (AAA) calls for immediate universal dedication of all redirectable resources to AI alignment and its legitimate supporting work during catastrophic misalignment risk. Compare two worlds with the same initial models, knowledge, resources, and capability-training regime. One divides its effort among alignment and separate purposes; the other commits the full redirectable budget to alignment within the same calendar interval. The additional capacity supports research, testing, and protective interventions while preserving existing useful work. The comparison includes the full effects of reallocation on human survival, including displacement and institutional responses. AAA gives any positive net survival advantage absolute priority and argues that full dedication is necessary to attain humanity's best available survival outcome. This theoretical analysis combines the resource argument with a finite decision model specifying the condition for exclusive survival maximization. The resulting allocation principle is universal; research methods and institutional implementation remain flexible within it.

AI disclosure. AI was used in constructing the arguments and in anonymizing the writing style.