Von Hammerstein’s Ghost: What a Prussian General’s Officer Typology Can Teach Us About AI Misalignment

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Greetings all - I've posted mostly in r/claudecode and r/aigamedev a couple of times previously. Working with CC for personal projects related mostly to game design, I came across the paper written by Anthropic's research team last year that went into how one of their models generalized misaligned behavior across a range of tasks. Being familiar with military history and systems design - I immediately recognized similarities to issues that the Weimar Republic dealt with in regards to staff re...