On the other hand, in 2018′s review MIRI wrote about new research directions, one of which feels ML adjacent. But from a few paragraphs, it doesn’t seem that the direction is relevant for prosaic AI alignment.
Seeking entirely new low-level foundations for optimization, designed for transparency and alignability from the get-go, as an alternative to gradient-descent-style machine learning foundations.
On the other hand, in 2018′s review MIRI wrote about new research directions, one of which feels ML adjacent. But from a few paragraphs, it doesn’t seem that the direction is relevant for prosaic AI alignment.