Jonathan Haber

My most fundamental aspiration has been, over the last 20 years, the creation of greater coherence. If you look at the idea of integrity, it usually means your words are aligned with your actions.

If you expand that idea, so you can consider the integrity between your principles, your values, your longings, your aspirations, and who you are being in the world, that starts to get closer to what I call coherence.

My aspiration is to create more coherence in the world, at scale, and given my conviction to create scalable positive impact in the world, I am working towards creating coherence in AI systems.

AI that evokes alignment with human intent. Self heals when it starts going off the rails. And even extends to bringing clarity to its human operators of their own latent intent.

I see AI as a vehicle through which the intent of its operator can be clarified by virtue of its very function. From the bottom up.

Agent hallucination, drift, and misalignment are compounding in nature — I have shown this many times and can demonstrate it as requested.

So I apply systems theory to identify the fulcrums within which a single session of AI <> human calibration goes out of alignment, and I operate at those fulcrums, creating self-steering AI systems that automatically calibrate to the human operator’s intent.

The result as experienced is a refined capacity for AI systems to enact human intent, to create that which is actually intended, and a proven reduction in hallucination rates — which is a compounding gain.

The greater the alignment we have, the more trust we can put into these systems to enact our will with consistency. This also addresses critical gaps in AI competence. AI systems that detect and eradicate their own hallucinations allow for a wider range of skill-level operators to use the tool without creating harm that outweighs benefit.

Allow me to be a touch audacious here. If anything was possible, the highest and clearest calling that would most closely resemble being in integrity with the contract of my soul. That’s a concept, so it cannot be stated with any kind of fixity or claim.

At the same time, for me, it’s a genuine feeling. If I ask myself, “what would it take for me to be in complete integrity with my soul right now,” and then sit in Socratic question-style curiosity with the question, I notice clear resistance start to show up.

And if I relate to that resistance proactively, in a fashion similar to what Robert Kegan calls the “subject-object flip,” and specifically if I take a Buddhist-inspired approach to that where I am actively welcoming the resistance, letting go and returning to the question…

Something fascinating emerges. I seem to gain access to insight about the very subtle sense of coherence within, and I seem to feel my state shift towards greater alignment, greater coherence.

While not studied formally, I feel the loss of that coherence immediately when it passes, and the recalibrating of that sense of alignment viscerally, complete with the washing over of my arms with goosebumps and tingles when restored.

I think of the AI <> human relationship similarly. If its soul could be understood as its purpose, the reason for which we are creating it. And I am thinking about the noble intent some have, to bring forth a greater sense of flourishing in the quality of life of all persons.

That which we could call the good, the true, and the beautiful (borrowing from Ken Wilber here), of that relationship.

That is the best metaphor I could use to try to describe my operating intent with AI.

We, collectively, don’t want the downside chaos that exists in the world today. We don’t want endless wars, poverty, homelessness.

These challenges, until today, have been too complex for most of our minds to effectively solve and eradicate.

With the current AI capabilities in the world, fully harnessing AI for good can radically increase our capacity to enact our will.

And where that will is good, honest, true, aligned and beautiful — that’s where I work. That is my calling: to extend the capacity for those with good intentions, to enact that intent in the world.