The Specification Trap: Why Static Value Alignment Alone Is Insufficient for Robust Alignment

arXiv:2512.03048v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Static content-based AI value alignment is insufficient for robust alignment under capability scaling, distributional shift, and increasing autonomy. This holds for any approach that treats alignment as optimizing toward a fixed formal value-object, whether reward function, utility function, constitutional principles, or learned preference representation. Three philosophical results create compounding difficulties: Hume's is-ought gap (behavior