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pith:YLNQD7JE

pith:2026:YLNQD7JEMES5JPYHYVRTMTKOC5

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Positive Alignment: Artificial Intelligence for Human Flourishing

Adam Elwood, Arun Rao, Chlo\'e Bakalar, Daniel Ford, Fernando Rosas, Matija Franklin, Maty Bohacek, Michael Levin, Morten Kringelbach, Nenad Toma\v{s}ev, Roma Patel, Ruben Laukkonen, Seb Krier, Shamil Chandaria, Stephanie Chan, Verena Rieser

AI alignment research needs a positive agenda that actively supports human flourishing in pluralistic ways, not only preventing harm.

arxiv:2605.10310 v3 · 2026-05-11 · cs.AI · cs.CY · cs.HC · q-bio.NC

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C1strongest claim

Positive Alignment is a distinct and necessary agenda within AI alignment research that may better address several existing failures of alignment such as engagement hacking, loss of autonomy, and lack of epistemic humility.

C2weakest assumption

That AI systems can be engineered to actively support human flourishing in a pluralistic, context-sensitive, and user-authored manner without introducing new alignment risks or requiring a single authoritative definition of flourishing.

C3one line summary

Positive Alignment introduces AI systems that support human flourishing pluralistically and proactively while remaining safe, as a necessary complement to traditional safety-focused alignment research.

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First computed	2026-06-23T01:13:05.617169Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c2db01fd246125d4bf07c563364d4e175fdb75b857b34ed5eed9567e340b26d2

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.10310 · arxiv_version: 2605.10310v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.10310 · pith_short_12: YLNQD7JEMES5 · pith_short_16: YLNQD7JEMES5JPYH · pith_short_8: YLNQD7JE

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YLNQD7JEMES5JPYHYVRTMTKOC5 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
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