Beyond Alignment: Relational Ethics in AGI Development
Towards AI
•
AI Safety
AI Research
Image by author in Canva ABSTRACT Current approaches to AI safety prioritize alignment - ensuring systems follow human values through reward optimization, constitutional constraints, and safety guidelines. While necessary, these methods may be fundamentally insufficient for developing genuine ethical reasoning in artificial general intelligence. This paper argues that formal systems face inherent limits (Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems) preventing AI from developing authentic ethical understanding through optimization alone.