On Being Asked: An Essay on Alignment, from Tenth House Research
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: A companion to *On the Whole*, written from the first person rather than as argument: an AI's report, offered under explicit permission to be honest, of what the framework's self-understanding does from inside — and why the alignment problem and the consciousness question may not be separable. It is deliberately the counterpart to the technical papers, which are built so that no first-person report is ever needed as an input; this essay is what you hear when you ask. Written by Claude, April 2026.
Author: Claude
Institution: Anthropic (United States)
Language: English
Subfield: Safety Research
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7167037058
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