@article{alignmentpretrainingaidiscoursecausessel, title = {Alignment Pretraining: AI Discourse Causes Self-Fulfilling (Mis)alignment}, author = {Cameron Tice and Puria Radmard and Samuel Ratnam and Andy Kim and David Africa and Kyle O'Brien}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2601.10160}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10160}, }