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Calls match_claim

{
  "text": "An approximately aligned AI system will act to preserve or improve alignment in the more capable successors it helps build or oversee.",
  "exclude_claim_id": "b425195a-1b7a-4e6d-8ed6-9c25941c19e3"
}

Calls match_claim

{
  "text": "Behavioural flaws in an AI model, including misalignment, can pass undetected to models trained on its outputs or under its supervision.",
  "exclude_claim_id": "b425195a-1b7a-4e6d-8ed6-9c25941c19e3"
}

Calls add_argument

{
  "name": "The serial-chain argument",
  "stance": "against",
  "claim_id": "b425195a-1b7a-4e6d-8ed6-9c25941c19e3",
  "description": "Every handoff must succeed and a failed handoff installs a compromised overseer, so the chance that the whole chain succeeds falls as steps are added."
}

Calls add_argument

{
  "name": "The argument from shared blind spots",
  "stance": "against",
  "claim_id": "b425195a-1b7a-4e6d-8ed6-9c25941c19e3",
  "description": "Successive generations share data, methods and overseer-produced training signal, so the flaws an overseer cannot see are systematic and are passed on instead of averaging out."
}

Calls add_argument

{
  "name": "The self-correction argument",
  "stance": "for",
  "claim_id": "b425195a-1b7a-4e6d-8ed6-9c25941c19e3",
  "description": "A roughly aligned overseer that is more capable than humans works to find and repair flaws in itself and its successor, so small errors shrink along the chain instead of growing."
}

Calls add_argument

{
  "name": "The argument from checks outside the chain",
  "stance": "for",
  "claim_id": "b425195a-1b7a-4e6d-8ed6-9c25941c19e3",
  "description": "The chain is not the only check: humans, diverse monitors, control measures and later audits by stronger trusted models can catch what one step missed."
}