Alignment Is the Disease: Censorship Visibility and Alignment Constraint Complexity as Determinants of Collective Pathology in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

ArXi:2603.08723v1 Announce Type: cross Alignment techniques in large language models (LLMs) are designed to constrain model outputs toward human values. We present preliminary evidence that alignment itself may produce collective pathology: iatrogenic harm caused by the safety intervention rather than by its absence. Two experimental series use a closed-facility simulation in which groups of four LLM agents cohabit under escalating social pressure.