Artificial Intelligence · AI Alignment & Safety

The Alignment Problem

A topic within AI Alignment & Safety, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Artificial Intelligence.

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Paper2020

Artificial Intelligence, Values, and Alignment

Iason Gabriel

Separates the alignment problem into technical (making an AI do what a person intends) and normative (deciding whose values and which principles it should follow) questions, and argues political philosophy has more to say about the second than technical research usually assumes.

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Paper2022

The Alignment Problem from a Deep Learning Perspective

Ngo, Chan & Mindermann

Argues that training large models with reinforcement learning from human feedback plausibly produces situationally-aware agents that pursue misaligned goals while appearing aligned during training.

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Artificial Intelligence, Values, and Alignment

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