Enter the concept of emergency alignment, which we can define as the temporary realignment of actions to a set of emergency values that we hold during an acute crisis. In this post, we’ll look at emergency alignment for both human-only and human-AI teams. On human-AI teams, the situation is more complicated. Even after we’ve identified the crisis value system and we know when to use it, how do we actually transition from normal alignment to emergency alignment? At the moment, there are far more questions than answers around how human-AI teams rapidly and safely handle emergency alignment.