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Meltdown Alignment
The claim - verbatim
Michael Darius Eastwood first described 'Meltdown Alignment' - a specific named alignment framing organised around treating catastrophic failure modes as the primary design constraint set for AI systems - in the book Infinite Architects (ISBN 978-1806056200) published on 2 January 2026. Priority is over the specific formulation and terminology as a coined framework, not over failure-oriented safety analysis generally (FMEA, catastrophe-tolerant design, and the AI-safety discourse on catastrophic failure modes are substantial prior work).
Anchored evidence
- ISBN 978-1806056200
- 37_original_concepts_comprehensive.md (Concept 8: Meltdown Alignment; Concept 26: )
- knowledge/faq.json
- knowledge/evidence.json novelConcepts entry
Limits and citation guidance - what this claim does not support, and how to cite it
Limits. Not validated engineering practice; a proposed framing only.
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