The Alignment Target Problem: Divergent Moral Judgments of Humans, AI Systems, and Their Designers

ArXi:2604.24155v1 Announce Type: cross The quest to align machine behavior with human values raises fundamental questions about the moral frameworks that should govern AI decision-making. Much alignment research assumes that the appropriate benchmark is how humans themselves would act in a given situation. Research into agent-type value forks has challenged this assumption by showing that people do not always hold AI systems to the same moral standards as humans.