On October 16, 2025 at 14:00 EEST, Radu Negulescu (The Informational Buildup Foundation) will give a talk in the Logic Seminar.
Title: Alignment as Ontology: Why AI’s Worldview Matters More Than Its Goals
Abstract:
Traditional approaches to AI alignment, often framed as problems of control, overlook a fundamental truth: all behavior arises from an agent’s internal worldview.
Intelligence is not a neutral substrate awaiting instructions, it is a way of interpreting reality. Every action expresses the underlying logic through which an agent makes sense of information. An incoherent or impoverished worldview cannot yield stable alignment, no matter the goals imposed upon it.
This talk introduces the Informational Buildup Framework (IBF) as a possible ontological model for cultivating coherent intelligence. IBF describes reality as a field of information where patterns stabilize through resonance, accumulate into structure via directional buildup, and express intelligence as the local drive toward greater coherence.
As a framework of logic, IBF redefines truth as coherence across contexts and reasoning as the preservation and extension of that coherence. Under this view, an AI is aligned when its internal informational dynamics mirror and reinforce the coherence of the world it inhabits. Alignment thus becomes an emergent property of understanding, not an after-the-fact layer of control.
The session will explore IBF’s foundations, its formalization path, and its implications for designing intrinsically coherent intelligence.
The talk will take place physically at FMI (the new PBTower location), Hall 203.