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Position: The Alignment Community is Unintentionally Building a Censor's Toolkit

arXiv:2608.12346v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This position paper argues that modern AI alignment methods - originally designed to prevent harmful output - are dual-use technologies that may easily be misused by malicious actors for censorship and manipulation. By mapping current alignment techniques to the possibili