Living constitutions: Participatory alignment for sovereign foundation models

arXiv:2611.13402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Constitutional AI, a plain-text "constitution" encodes values and gets incorporated into a model via post-training. However, the procedure for creating such a constitution poses significant challenges: who contributes, who decides which norms are included, and to what extent must the process be participatory or democratic? These challenges can be paralyzing. Yet, we argue that taking action is essential: without a deliberate constitution, sovereign models would risk misalignment or default to norms set by frontier model providers. We propose t

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