The fact that it doesn't do what you want is the alignment problem.

And arguably Claude should just make it work without leaking your email address and not come back to you about why it doesn't work.

> but the entity instructing this behavior is the SEC. Tricky alignment problem.

The OP was suggesting that the government authority of the SEC conflicted with duty to the user, making the correction action tricky, not saying it was a failure. Such conflicts can occur, but this was not an example.

You told it to do a thing and it did the thing. You didn't tell it to not send your email address.

That is text book alignment problem. It does what you tell it to do, not what you implicitly meant.