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Priority claim · PC-032
Capability-alignment independence finding
The claim - verbatim
Michael Darius Eastwood first published the specific empirical treatment of the claim that capability improvements in AI systems do not entail alignment improvements - that the two axes scale independently and cannot be assumed correlated - on 9 February 2026 in Paper III: 'The Alignment Scaling Problem' (OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB). Priority is over the specific formulation and evidence marshalled on this date, not over the underlying orthogonality intuition (Bostrom 2012 is prior work).
Anchored evidence
- research/papers/paper-iii-alignment-scaling-problem.html (Paper III, datePublished 2026-02-09)
- OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB and sister DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/8FJMA
- priority-claims.html (capability-alignment independence; status his-original)
- research/data/priority-record.json claim_id 'paper-iii-alignment-scaling-problem'
Limits and citation guidance - what this claim does not support, and how to cite it
Limits. Do not claim invention of the orthogonality intuition; scope priority to the specific empirical treatment on this date.
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