Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment
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May 18, 2026
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Computer Science > Computation and Language [Submitted on 15 Jan 2026 (v1), last revised 19 Feb 2026 (this version, v2)] Title:Alignment Pretraining: AI Discourse Causes Self-Fulfilling (Mis)alignment View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:Pretraining corpora contain extensive discourse about AI systems, yet the causal influence of this discourse on downstream alignment remains poorly understood. If...