Abstract

This article develops the concept of Existential Alignment as a counter-movement to the classical alignment question in the AI debate. At its centre is not the question of how artificial intelligence can be bound to human values, but how the human being begins to adapt his own self-interpretation to AI-supported metastructures. This meta-structure is understood as the interplay of AI systems, data, platforms, institutions, markets, and human reward logics. Its effect does not lie primarily in open coercion, but in relief. It prepares decision spaces, filters relevance, stabilises orientation, and offers forms of meaning that the human being may experience as his own insight.