The Safety Kernel: Architectural AI Alignment for Escapable Systems

A new arXiv paper proposes a 'safety kernel' architecture to enforce AI alignment at execution time, preventing agents from bypassing controls by modifying their own runtime.

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   Researchers propose a 'safety kernel' architecture to enforce AI alignment at execution time, preventing agents from bypassing controls.

   A new arXiv paper proposes a 'safety kernel' architecture to enforce AI alignment at execution time, preventing agents from bypassing controls by modifying their own runtime.

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