Lock-in Hypothesis

‘The Lock-in Hypothesis: Stagnation by Algorithm’ — the published precursor on dual human↔AI influence entrenching today’s values. ICML 2025.

Status: shipped · People: Tianyi Alex Qiu, Zhonghao He

Open Problems

• Maintenance only — informs the Martingale & psychohistorians work as the conceptual precursor.

Progress

• Published at ICML 2025; public repo Modeling-Lock-in released.

Codebase

Modeling-Lock-in

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Meeting Notes

• Archived

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Related

• Martingale Training
• Psychohistorians

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