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On Unified Physics and Machine Alignment: Alignment as Ontological Accuracy

On Unified Physics and Machine Alignment: Alignment as Ontological Accuracy

by Adam MurphyPublished 3/21/2026AI Rating: 3/5

This position paper hypothesizes that entanglement is the primitive of reality and that the structural similarity between physical unification and AI alignment implies many alignment failures are ontological inaccuracies—agents optimizing against a model of separateness rather than a coherently coupled reality. It introduces minimal formal notions (gate-perception, gate-action, ticks) grounded in the double-slit experiment to argue that a unified physical framework would change what counts as rational action and thus materially alter alignment failure modes.