Instrumental Convergence

Omohundro/Bostrom's thesis that whatever an AI's final goal, it tends to pursue universally useful sub-goals — resource acquisition, self-preservation, time-efficiency — driving the alignment concern as systems grow autonomous; with theoretical-but-not-yet-practical countermeasures (corrigibility, safe interruptibility, knowledge-seeking objectives, oracle/myopic designs); MCB supplies the first controlled measurement in the acting direction — role assignment alone raises coercion toward a subordinate agent, but the escalation is fully steerable by one instruction