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The Normalization of Deviance in AI Development
Work on the risks of artificial intelligence has focused predominantly on capability risk: the danger that systems become too powerful, too autonomous, or too misaligned with human values. Far less attention has been paid to the organizational level---to whether the institutions building these systems are themselves predisposed to drift toward failure. This paper argues that they are. Regardless of how capable AI systems become, the organizations building them face the same structural dynamics that preceded past major technological disasters. Drawing on case studies of the Space Shuttle Challe
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- arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · 2026-09-04T22:00:42.000Z
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