Position: AI Lock-In Is in Progress, and We Must Be Prepared: AI safety research has mainly focused on two areas: technical...

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Position: AI Lock-In Is in Progress, and We Must Be Prepared: AI safety research has mainly focused on two areas: technical alignment (ensuring AI systems produce human-aligned outputs) and the regulation of generative AI's societal impacts (including unemployment risk and labor market disruption). However, an equally important dimension remains underexplored: the risk inherent in dependence on AI systems themselves...