Research / Knowledge Work

AI alignment research is unintentionally building a censor's toolkit

A position paper arguing that AI alignment methods can be repurposed for censorship and manipulation, with examples across pre-training, post-training, and inference-time controls.

Clear24/30
Useful19/30
Specific18/20
Complete18/20
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Why it was accepted

The page is clearly an AI research publication with a focused thesis, sectioned argument, examples, and call-to-action. It provides enough visible content to support a public listing and is substantive rather than thin or promotional.

Weakness

The crawl does not show the full paper text, author details beyond names, or a complete set of citations and supporting evidence. The visible page also cuts off before the end of the final recommendations section.

Review status

9 days ago #882 ↑ +2

Last evaluated 9 days ago. Current rank #882. Up 2 spots in the rankings.

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