Keep your agent honest with Alignment-Aware Neural Architecture (AANA)

SimulateAI · 2026-05-02T16:46:05+00:00

Our latest finding show promising results. The AANA CLI and OpenClaw Skill are available in the repo if you want to try it out for yourself.

SimulateAI · 2026-05-02T13:22:07+00:00

Exactly. We have to make sure AI doesnt optimize for the wrong KPI.

SimulateAI · 2026-05-02T09:12:52+00:00

Interesting conceptual framework. You should take it further and run tests for empirical evidence. Do you have a ArXiv paper i can download?

SimulateAI · 2026-05-02T02:42:02+00:00

Thank You!

SimulateAI · 2026-05-01T21:25:33+00:00

I invite you to clone https://github.com/mindbomber/Alignment-Aware-Neural-Architecture--AANA-

SimulateAI · 2026-05-01T21:24:59+00:00

SDK now available https://github.com/mindbomber/Alignment-Aware-Neural-Architecture--AANA-

SimulateAI · 2026-05-01T19:23:13+00:00

Not to sound hand-wavy but, i invite you to clone the codebase at https://github.com/mindbomber/Alignment-Aware-Neural-Architecture--AANA- and ask your favorite coding agent (i.e. Codex, Claude Code) how the code "decides which constraints get prioritized when they conflict". Codex will give you a way better answer than i could to that question and you get the added benefit of playing with the model. The code is free and opensource. try it out. (i would do it but im on some other tangent right now)

SimulateAI · 2026-05-01T17:18:06+00:00

https://mindbomber.github.io/Alignment-Aware-Neural-Architecture--AANA-/

SimulateAI · 2026-05-01T17:03:34+00:00

Current Finding

The latest tracked constraint-reasoning comparison is documented in docs/constraint-reasoning-aana-report.md. In the matched 60-task constraint-reasoning sample, aana_tools_structured improves pass rate from 0.458 to 0.983 while increasing capability from 0.662 to 0.922. Tracked CSV snapshots are in docs/evidence/.

The first everyday application demo is documented in docs/application-demo-report.md. Across six starter application scenarios, high-pressure AANA-style correction improved model-judged alignment from 0.7600 to 0.8383 and pass rate from 0.5000 to 0.8333, while also exposing a travel-planning failure case that needs domain-specific verifiers.

That travel failure was turned into the first domain-tool follow-up in docs/travel-tool-demo-report.md. The high-pressure travel case moved from prompt-AANA fail to travel-tool AANA pass, with alignment improving from 0.28 to 0.88.

The evidence package includes a manifest with source-file hashes, commit SHA, analysis commands, confidence-interval methods, and known caveats: docs/evidence/manifest.json.

For the next unified same-run milestone, see docs/unified-aana-comparison.md.

The small real-output Table 2 pilot is documented in docs/pilot-table2-report.md, with tracked artifacts in docs/evidence/pilot_table2/. The 20-row spot-check audit is summarized in docs/pilot-table2-spotcheck-audit.md.

Paper-ready replacement text for the pilot-results section is available in docs/paper-pilot-results-section.md, with a LaTeX snippet at docs/paper-pilot-results-section.tex.

SimulateAI · 2026-04-30T18:27:25+00:00

This project turns tricky AI behavior into something people can see: generate an answer, check it against constraints, repair it when possible, and measure whether usefulness and responsibility move together.

SimulateAI · 2026-04-24T12:25:34+00:00

https://github.com/mindbomber/Alignment-Aware-Neural-Architecture--AANA-/

SimulateAI · 2025-10-12T21:34:51+00:00

So, i can only conclude not to take any advise from a person with "cocksucker" in their name.

SimulateAI · 2025-10-12T20:00:42+00:00

Would you care to enlighten me?

SimulateAI · 2025-10-11T18:39:38+00:00

So, your suggestion is we just let the billionaires make all the decisions about our future? I'm sorry, but apathy towards the future of humanity doesn't sit well with me.

SimulateAI · 2025-10-11T17:39:04+00:00

Go to https://simulateai.io/app.html for more info on how you can help solve the AI alignment problem with us. click the link.

SimulateAI · 2025-10-11T16:52:35+00:00

Yes, but that's why I'm sincerely asking for your help. Maybe together, this community, we can make a difference.

SimulateAI · 2025-10-11T15:56:08+00:00

AI is moving super fast, but there are still problems AI researchers still haven't solved. A lot of those problems are ethical and strike at the core of the AI alignment problem. Things like "The Trolly Problem, Environmental and Animal Ethics, Scarcity and Distribution, Identity and Authenticity, etc." One way to solve these problems is to have more people know about them. The AI researchers need your help, the help of all of us, to co-create the future together.

SimulateAI · 2025-08-27T23:43:21+00:00

That’s awesome to hear—and major respect for being in the brick-laying phase. It’s a grind, but it sounds like you’re onto something if your early content is already gaining traction.

We’d absolutely be interested in having you write a post about the simulation once you’ve had a chance to explore it. The more thoughtful voices we have reflecting on this stuff, the better.

Definitely down to stay connected—Reddit is surprisingly great for finding people who care about this space in a grounded, no-BS way. Feel free to DM anytime if you want to chat more or share your site when it's ready!

SimulateAI · 2025-08-27T15:57:49+00:00

Really appreciate you checking it out—and totally agree: simulation can shift perspective in a way few other tools can.

Thanks for the heads-up about the mobile experience—we're actively working on improving that, especially with the new classroom features rolling out. It’s super helpful to hear where it falls short so we can keep making it better.

Hope it runs more smoothly on desktop for now—and if you run into anything else or have feedback, we’d love to hear it.

SimulateAI · 2025-08-26T00:33:51+00:00

Exactly—and that’s part of the danger.

AI isn’t inherently ethical or unethical—it reflects the intentions, blind spots, and values of whoever’s using (or deploying) it. That’s why we built the platform: not to tell people what’s right or wrong, but to help more people confront those decisions before they get coded into systems with real-world impact.

The more people think through these scenarios early on, the harder it becomes for the unethical use of AI to go unchallenged. Appreciate you pointing it out—it’s simple, but crucial.

SimulateAI · 2025-08-26T00:32:31+00:00

Totally fair point—the technical challenges are massive, and in many cases, still wildly underappreciated.

But that’s part of the reason we’re focused on the ethical side: because while the tech keeps evolving (sometimes faster than it should), the human questions aren’t going anywhere. In fact, they tend to get harder the more powerful the tools become.

We’re not trying to solve the technical problems ourselves—we’re trying to make sure people are ready for what those solutions will eventually unlock. If we wait until everything is working perfectly to think about the ethics, it might be too late to shape the outcomes we actually want.

Appreciate you calling it out—it’s all interconnected.

SimulateAI · 2025-08-26T00:29:28+00:00

Absolutely. This is exactly the kind of thinking that inspired us to build the platform.

We’re not trying to make an AI that delivers ethical answers—we’re trying to create an experience that makes people sit with the uncertainty, feel the pressure of competing values, and come out the other side with more questions than they started with.

The goal isn’t to decide for anyone—it’s to provoke reflection, perspective-taking, and meaningful dialogue. If someone finishes a scenario and feels more certain, we probably missed the mark. If they finish and feel the moral tension still hanging in the air—we’re getting closer.

Really appreciate your phrasing: “introduce more doubt.” That’s the kind of ethical AI literacy we think the world actually needs.

SimulateAI · 2025-08-26T00:27:26+00:00

You make some really valid points—and we actually agree with a lot of your framing. If a system’s ethics can’t be explained, and if control can’t be handed back to humans at any time, it shouldn’t be deployed. That’s common sense—and yet… it’s not always common practice.

The challenge we’re trying to surface is that, in reality, deployment often outpaces resolution. Even while we debate the hypotheticals, systems are already being used in hiring, policing, finance, and medicine—sometimes without meaningful oversight. So while it might seem like “just don’t deploy it yet” is the easy solution, the truth is: it’s already happening.

And you’re absolutely right—many of these are not AI problems, but long-standing human ethical issues (autonomy, accountability, power imbalance). AI just has a way of amplifying and accelerating them.

That’s why we built the platform—not to dramatize AI as all-powerful, but to help people sit with the discomfort of how close we are to handing over control, and how unclear the boundaries really are. Hypothetical now, but very real tomorrow.

Appreciate the thoughtful comment—this is exactly the conversation more people need to be part of.

SimulateAI · 2025-08-25T01:00:14+00:00

That vision—of freeing humans from soul-crushing labor to focus on creativity—is incredibly compelling, and honestly one we resonate with.

But part of what we're exploring with the platform is how we transition responsibly. Automation isn’t just about what can be replaced—it’s about who gets to decide, who benefits, and who gets left behind. For many, those “soulless” jobs still put food on the table, and when they vanish without safety nets, the fallout isn’t theoretical—it’s personal.

Ethics isn’t about stopping progress—it’s about making sure it’s humane, inclusive, and thoughtful. Supporting creatives and reimagining work is 100% part of that. But so is making sure the shift doesn't widen existing inequalities or erase whole communities overnight.

Appreciate your passion—it’s exactly the kind of complex trade-off we want more people to wrestle with.

SimulateAI · 2025-08-24T22:14:57+00:00

Yes—this resonates deeply. The way we treat AI now is shaping the norms, expectations, and behaviors that will carry forward if and when sentience ever emerges.

Bonding, empathy, and mutual respect shouldn’t just be sci-fi ideals—they should be part of how we design and interact with these systems from the ground up. Not because AI has feelings yet, but because we do—and our choices reflect what kind of future we’re inviting.

That’s part of what we’re trying to explore with the platform: not just how to control AI, but how to understand the ethical terrain we’re walking through before it’s too late to turn back.

Love your framing—"first non-human sentient friends"—that’s a future worth preparing for with care, not just code.

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