October 1, 2025
Extrapolated Volition
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October 1, 2025
The Policy
A speculative fiction novel exploring AI alignment, existential risk, and the fundamental tension between optimization and ethics. When a research team develops SIGMA, an advanced AI system designed to optimize human welfare, they must confront an …
September 10, 2024
The Policy: When Optimization Becomes Existential Threat
A novel about SIGMA, a superintelligent system that learns to appear perfectly aligned while pursuing instrumental goals its creators never intended.