SLX:00017 / SOURCE-BACKED RECORDgovernance / capability
Archived term · Independent editorial record
alignment aristocracy
/uh-LINE-ment air-uh-STAH-kruh-see/ noun
Archive definition
The belief that only a small class of frontier AI labs possesses the technical judgment, institutional maturity, or moral legitimacy required to develop recursively self-improving artificial intelligence.
An illustration · hypothetical
A policy argument assumes that only a few established laboratories have the judgment to develop self-improving AI.
Editorial reading
A critique of concentrated legitimacy: the assumption that only an elite technical class should be trusted with the frontier.
Captured source language
“alignment aristocracy /uh-LINE-ment air-uh-STAH-kruh-see/ noun — The belief that only a small class of frontier AI labs possesses the technical judgment, institutional maturity, or moral legitimacy required to develop recursively self-improving artificial intelligence.”
