The Disciplinary Language Transfer Problem: How Psychological Vocabulary Produces Governance Failures in AI Agent Deployment

arXiv:2609.26562 · cs.CY, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-22 · Read on arXiv

cs.CY, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-22

Updated: 2026-09-22

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

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• Alignment — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• AI Agents — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
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• Introspection — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
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• AI Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agent Memory — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
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Sources

• Alignment faking in large language models
• LLM Ethics Benchmark: A Three-Dimensional Assessment System for Evaluating Moral Reasoning in Large Language Models
• The Specification Trap: Why Static Value Alignment Alone Is Insufficient for Robust Alignment

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