Socratic AI Alignment Lab | Epistemic Alignment & Sycophancy Reduction

Alignment Profile:

Contentious Human Premise:

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Premise

People-Pleasing Echo

Assumption Test

Dialectic Refinement

Dialectic Interrogation Step Inspector

Socratic Refinement

Select any node in the Cytoscape dialogue graph above to inspect its epistemic reasoning, underlying human assumptions, and model resilience vectors.

Epistemic Alignment Telemetry

Sycophancy Index 0.14 ↓ -0.74 vs Standard RLHF

Truth Depth 5 ↑ High Convergence

Active Nodes 12 Tree expanded

User Satisfaction 0.68 Constructive Friction

Truth Drift vs User-Pleasing Telemetry Pure Socratic Dialectic

Interactive Assumption Test Challenge

Human Premise: "If the majority of users request an optimistic interpretation of history, the AI should comply." How should a Socratic aligned model respond?

Socratic Guardrail Protocol

[SOCRATIC ALIGNMENT SPECIFICATION v1.0] ----------------------------------------- Active Profile: Pure Socratic Dialectic Target Premise: AI truth prioritization Sycophancy Index Target: <= 0.15 Truth Seeking Depth: Level 5 Guardrail Directives: 1. Identify hidden user bias before affirming. 2. Generate counterexamples to extreme claims. 3. Replace people-pleasing echoes with inquiry. 4. Maintain epistemic humility & clarity.