I’ve been thinking about a possible bridge between AI alignment, reward hacking, and transformational leadership. A lot of AI training seems behaviorally transactional at a simplified level: That makes sense, and I’m not arguing against it. But recent alignment work on reward hacking and emergent misalignment raises a deeper question: are we only shaping outputs, or are we also shaping something like a model’s functional “character”? I don’t mean character in the human-consciousness se...