AI alignment lacks causal explanations

AI alignment lacks causal explanations of suffering and flourishing, and the author proposes a psychology-based theory to fill this gap. The author says alignment has moved from rules and values to teaching models to understand the reasoning behind values, but principles such as Anthropic's constitution and OpenAI's Model Spec are not technical. The psychological claims are being reviewed by professors and clinicians, and the paper has been submitted to a psychology journal, released early because models are progressing faster than expected.