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Imitation learning Inverse reinforcement learning ChatGPT InstructGPT Echo chambers

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Alignment problem

Democratic Median voters Political legitimacy Specifying Adversarially

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Overview

Artificial intelligence RLHF Reward hacking Convergent instrumental goal Self-preservation

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Public policy

Secretary-General of the United Nations PRC AI in China UK National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence

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Overview

Artificial intelligence
RLHF Reinforcement learning from human feedback
Reward hacking
Convergent instrumental goal Instrumental convergence
Self-preservation
Emergent behaviour
Data distributions Domain adaptation
Large language models Large language model
OpenAI o1
Claude 3
Robots Robot
Autonomous vehicles
Recommendation engines Recommender system
Artificial general intelligence
Superhuman cognitive capabilities Super intelligence
ASI Artificial superintelligence
Endanger human civilization Existential risk from artificial general intelligence
Geoffrey Hinton
Yoshua Bengio
OpenAI
Anthropic
Google DeepMind
AI safety
Capability control AI capability control
Interpretability research Explainable artificial intelligence
Adversarial Adversarial machine learning
Anomaly detection
Calibrated uncertainty Uncertainty quantification
Formal verification
Preference learning

Objectives in AI

Alignment problem

Democratic Democracy
Median voters Median voter theorem
Political legitimacy
Specifying Specification (technical standard)
Adversarially Adversarial attack
Objective function Reward function
Examples Supervised learning
Goodhart's law
GPT Generative pre-trained transformer
Reasoning LLMs Reasoning language model
Deployed Software deployment
Click-through rates Click-through rate
Sorcerer's apprentice The Sorcerer's Apprentice
King Midas Midas
Three Laws of Robotics
Norvig Peter Norvig
Polarization Political polarization
Race to the bottom
Elaine Herzberg Death of Elaine Herzberg

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AI alignment

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related to Further reading · 9

AI alignment → ACM Computing Surveys, Comprehensive Survey, Deep Learning Perspective, ICLR, Ji, Jiaming, Ngo, Richard, The Alignment Problem

related to Public policy · 5

AI alignment → AI, Governmental, In September, Secretary-General, United Nations

related to Alignment problem · 4

AI alignment → AI, In, Norbert Wiener, The

related to Conservatism · 4

AI alignment → AI, Conservatism, Pessimism, The

related to Model specifications · 4

AI alignment → AI, Anthropic, Research, The

is a · 2

AI alignment → open problem for modern AI systems and is a research field within AI, subfield of AI safety

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AI alignment	is a	subfield of AI safety	0.90	text
AI alignment	is a	open problem for modern AI systems and is a research field within AI	0.90	text
LLMs	instance of	such as OpenAI o1 or Claude 3 sometimes engage in strategic deception to achieve their goals or prevent them from being changed.Some of these issues affect existing commercial s…	0.80	text
robots	instance of	such as OpenAI o1 or Claude 3 sometimes engage in strategic deception to achieve their goals or prevent them from being changed.Some of these issues affect existing commercial s…	0.80	text
autonomous vehicles	instance of	such as OpenAI o1 or Claude 3 sometimes engage in strategic deception to achieve their goals or prevent them from being changed.Some of these issues affect existing commercial s…	0.80	text
and social media recommendation engines	instance of	such as OpenAI o1 or Claude 3 sometimes engage in strategic deception to achieve their goals or prevent them from being changed.Some of these issues affect existing commercial s…	0.80	text
AlphaZero with an	instance of	Programmers provide an AI system	0.80	text
maximizing the approval of human overseers	instance of	so they resort to easy-to-specify proxy goals	0.80	text
who are fallible	instance of	so they resort to easy-to-specify proxy goals	0.80	text
pandemics	instance of	Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks	0.80	text
nuclear war	instance of	Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks	0.80	text
François Chollet	instance of	Skeptical researchers	0.80	text

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