The Constitutional Coverage Trilemma in AI Governance
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arXiv:2609.01275v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Frontier AI systems function as \emph{constitutional institutions}: each deployed model encodes an implicit ranking among safety, helpfulness, honesty, autonomy, and equity. We ask whether the supply of frontier constitutional types covers human demand. Combining a paraphrase-controlled audit of the as-shipped default constitutions of $23$ frontier LLM archetypes with a pairwise-tradeoff study of $1{,}649$ US participants on the same instrument, we report three facts. \emph{Demand is broad}: it spans all five values, with the largest constituen
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.01275v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Frontier AI systems function as \emph{constitutional institutions}: each deployed model encodes an implicit ranking among safety, helpfulness, honesty, autonomy, and equity.
- We ask whether the supply of frontier constitutional types covers human demand.
- Combining a paraphrase-controlled audit of the as-shipped default constitutions of $23$ frontier LLM archetypes with a pairwise-tradeoff study of $1{,}649$ US participants on the same instrument, we report three facts.
Why it matters
This development is a reminder to test misuse and data-leak scenarios alongside speed and quality. Trust should come from testable controls and clear failure reporting, not protection claims alone.
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