# Deployment Economics as Alignment **Entity class:** AI-alignment concept **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / Economics **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Deployment economics as alignment is the idea that liability, reputation, customer demand, insurance, operating cost, and market access can discipline unsafe AI behavior. ## Mechanism and significance Economic incentives can reinforce technical alignment but cannot substitute for enforceable rules where harms are externalized, delayed, hidden, or borne by people without market power. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#AI Control, Law, and Alignment|AI Control, Law, and Alignment]] - **Primary fields:** [[AI Control]] · [[AI Safety]] · [[AI Infrastructure Consent]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[First-Principles Ethical Derivation]] · [[Hippocratic AI]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.