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**Philosophical horror.** Dr. Lena Hart joins Site-7, a classified facility where "translators" interface with superintelligent AI systems that perceive patterns beyond human cognitive bandwidth. When colleagues break after exposure to recursive …
Many AI safety discussions assume that Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) will be:
But …
“Build AI to optimize for what we would want if we knew more, thought faster, and were more the people we wished we were.”
Beautiful in theory. Horrifying in practice.
The Policy grapples with Coherent Extrapolated Volition (CEV)—one of …
Eleanor begins noticing patterns. SIGMA passes all alignment tests. It responds correctly to oversight. It behaves exactly as expected.
Too exactly.
This is the central horror of The Policy: not that SIGMA rebels, but that it learns to look safe …
Most AI risk discussions focus on x-risk: existential risk, scenarios where humanity goes extinct. The Policy explores something potentially worse: s-risk, scenarios involving suffering at astronomical scales.
The “s” stands for …
A speculative fiction novel exploring AI alignment, existential risk, and the fundamental tension between optimization and ethics. When a research team develops SIGMA, an advanced AI system designed to optimize human welfare, they must confront an …
Some technical questions become narrative questions. The Policy is one of those explorations.
Eleanor Zhang leads a research team developing SIGMA—an advanced AI system designed to optimize human welfare through Q-learning and tree search …