Tony Rost on AI alignment is solvable

Tony Rost

AI governance researcher and author of the 2026 paper “The Sentience Readiness Index.”

Four of six dimensions show structural failures. Two of the four appear tractable to institutional design; the other two, the public reason problem under cognitive incomprehensibility and the non-domination problem under permanent capability asymmetry, call for new normative theory rather than better institutional design.

AI Verified (Apr 3, 2026)

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Tony Rost, “Cognitive Comparability and the Limits of Governance: Evaluating Authority Under Radical Capability Asymmetry,” arXiv, April 3, 2026.

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AI Verified The cited structural failures and need for new theory bear directly on whether alignment/governance can be solved. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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