Harm Avoidance and Cognitive Extinction - Structural Isomorphisms Between Frontier-AI Alignment and EU Technocratic Governance
Harm Avoidance and Cognitive Extinction Structural Isomorphisms Between Frontier-AI Alignment and EU Technocratic Governance English This paper examines harm avoidance as the central optimization principle in complex systems, conducting a comparative analysis between frontier AI alignment and EU technocratic governance from 2025 to 2035. By adopting harm avoidance as the core lens, it formalizes its transition from legitimate resilience tool to a ratchet mechanism inducing control monoculture, where procedural democracy coexists with structural agency erosion. Readers gain novel insights into underwater realization as a stealth pathway for policy persistence, non linear dynamical modeling of lock in effects with hysteresis, measurable proxies for cognitive extinction such as agency perception indices, and capacity credits as a Goodhart resistant alternative that prioritizes divergence over containment, offering a proactive ethic to counter emergent degradation of human autonomy, moral agency, and creative synthesis. Nederlands Dit paper onderzoekt harm avoidance als centraal optimalisatieprincipe in complexe systemen, via een vergelijkende analyse tussen frontier AI alignment en EU technocratisch bestuur van 2025 tot 2035. Door harm avoidance als kern te nemen, formaliseert het de transitie van legitiem resilience instrument naar ratchet mechanisme dat controle monocultuur induceert, waar procedurele democratie samenvalt met structurele erosie van agency. Lezers verkrijgen nieuwe inzichten in underwater realisatie als stealth pad voor beleids persistentie, niet lineaire dynamische modellering van lock in effecten met hysterese, meetbare proxies voor cognitieve extinctie zoals agency perceptie indices, en capaciteitskredieten als Goodhart resistente alternatief dat divergentie prioriteert boven containment, met een proactieve ethiek om emergente degradatie van menselijke autonomie, morele agency en creatieve synthese te counteren.
Authors
- Alfred Frederik Slot
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2025-12-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17983535
- Primary Topic
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00