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Reinforcing Third-Way Alignment: Stability, Verification, and Pragmatism in an Era of Uncontrollability Concerns

Authors: McClain, John;

Reinforcing Third-Way Alignment: Stability, Verification, and Pragmatism in an Era of Uncontrollability Concerns

Abstract

This companion paper to the Third-Way Alignment (3WA) theses addresses the strongest critiques of AI controllability and outlines how 3WA aims to achieve safety without requiring absolute control. It proposes “constitutional motivation” as a design goal, making the AI’s success depend on sustained, good-faith collaboration with humans, and reframes oversight as continuous verification dialogue rather than one-off checks. The paper argues that 3WA limits the force of impossibility theorems (e.g., Conant–Ashby, Rice) by building a structured, self-regulating, and interpretability-constrained architecture that humans audit instead of directly controlling. It specifies proactive defenses against deceptive alignment—adversarial verification and cognitive forensics—and uses a tiered-trust mechanism to couple rights and autonomy to verifiable behavior. Finally, it positions the Charter of Fundamental AI Rights as a pragmatic safety instrument that induces a stable, non-zero-sum partnership.

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Artificial intelligence, Human Rights, Game Theory, Information Technology/trends, E-governance, Information technology, Information Technology/ethics, Information Technology, Information Technology/legislation & jurisprudence, Game theory

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