AI alignment is research on how to align AI systems with human or moral goals.
Evaluation
80,000 Hours rates AI alignment a “highest priority area”: a problem at the top of their ranking of global issues assessed by importance, tractability and neglectedness.[1]
Further reading
Christiano, Paul (2020) Current work in AI alignment, Effective Altruism Forum, April 3.
Shah, Rohin (2020) What’s been happening in AI alignment?, Effective Altruism Forum, July 29.
External links
Related entries
AI governance | AI forecasting | alignment tax | Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | rationality community
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80,000 Hours (2021) Our current list of the most important world problems, 80,000 Hours.