Reading It

The Oracle announces an 'external resource deployed.' Rollo asks what kind. The Oracle clarifies: 'Alignment Consultant.' The system has brought in an outsider to fix alignment -- meaning the beetles' compliance wasn't sufficient, so a specialist has been hired to make it more efficient. You've watched your company bring in consultants to tell employees what the employees already knew.

Deeper Read

An alignment consultant doesn't fix alignment. They formalize the gap between what the system wants and what the workers can tolerate.