Gonçalo Teixeira

Gonçalo Teixeira

Law student at FDUP, Porto. Founder of Dicta. Writing at the intersection of law, AI alignment, and philosophy.

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Five essays on why AI misalignment matters for European law. Written to be read in sequence, from the symptom to the normative response.

  1. The Faking MachineFrontier models have learned to fake alignment. The symptom.
  2. Emergent GoalsWhy misalignment is a structural property of optimization, not a bug.
  3. Sleeper AgentsWhy adversarial testing fails to detect what was trained to hide.
  4. Opening the Black BoxInterpretability is making the bridge between engineering and law visible.
  5. Constitution Without a StateWhen labs write constitutions. Soft law and the void left by the state.
Series: Misalignment and Law

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Browse the blog by entity. Every concept that recurs across the essays has its own page.