Earth Alignment

Earth Alignment asks a simple question:

How should increasingly capable AI systems account for the long-term stewardship of the Earth systems that underpin human civilization?

As AI becomes increasingly capable, it will shape the ecological, economic, and institutional systems that underpin life on Earth. Earth Alignment is a research initiative exploring how stewardship of those systems can become an explicit consideration in AI objectives, evaluation, governance, and alignment research.

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Exploring how AI alignment can account for the long-term stewardship of Earth systems.

Earth Alignment: A Missing Dimension of AI Safety

Foundational Essay · 20 min read

This essay defines the problem Earth Alignment seeks to address and lays out the case for why stewardship of Earth systems should become an explicit consideration in AI alignment research.

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Earth Alignment is an independent research initiative by Natalia Vasquez exploring AI alignment, Earth systems, and long-term planetary stewardship.

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