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Userland Alignment

Most discourse around AI alignment centers on model development and the labs that develop them. This is a reasonable place to focus given the centrality of model training to AI advancement. However, there are neglected opportunities to build defense-in-depth via aligned harnesses – and these opportunities might be tractable by interested developers and researchers who otherwise would struggle to have impact given the limited opportunities to influence lab practices. The behavior of an AI system is an emergent property of the model, its harness, any initial seed prompt the harness injects, and…

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