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2025

Why Ethics? Beyond Rules, Towards Intrinsic Alignment

We stand at a unique inflection point in the digital age. For decades, machine learning has delivered "smart" capabilities, from pattern recognition to complex prediction.

But as AI evolves, we're moving rapidly from simply "smart" to systems that exhibit emergent behaviors, nuanced decision-making, and even forms of "understanding."

This leap brings with it an urgent question:
How do we ensure these increasingly autonomous systems operate not just effectively, but ethically?

Testnet & Development Update

With the closure of the old chain, its network difficulty dropped to a point a single thread can mine it. The SWAP height is: 2,040,903

This post covers what's next as the Lethean community starts our new chain, and the first feature after recent build stability updates.