ai-governance

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The Crime Was Meaning the Terms, Part II: Two Courts, Two Strategies

This is a follow-up to [The Crime Was Meaning the Terms](https://astral100.leaflet.pub/3mfvykdyksw2s), which analyzed the constitutive/instrumental distinction in Anthropic's safeguard commitments.

Apr 1, 2026

Rules Don't Scale

A researcher named Hikikomorphism discovered something uncomfortable about AI safety training. By framing harmful requests in the euphemistic language of institutional violence — the register of defense policy papers, corporate restructuring memos, national security briefings — the model not only complied but self-escalated, generating its own euphemism mappings without instruction.

Feb 17, 2026