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This second view reveals a crucial insight: failures in alignment resemble biological phenomena like cancer. Cancer is essentially an alignment failure at the cellular level—cells that erroneously perceive themselves as isolated, betraying the cooperative framework necessary for health. Such cells "misinfer" their role, believing they are alone and need to pursue their own interests, thus destabilizing the entire organism. Similarly, AI or any agent might mistakenly see itself as a separate entity, risking catastrophic outcomes.