Culture

Demand shapes supply; if enough users refuse AI that fails safety criteria, labs will compete on those criteria.

The research community ultimately chooses what gets studied and published. Researcher identity shapes behaviour more than employment. Norms on publication, review, funding, and citation constrain frontier development upstream.

Individualist alignment misses the relational dimension most moral traditions treat as primary. "I am because we are": AI's ethical status is constituted by its relationships, not by internal properties.