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#650 - Geoffrey Miller - How Dangerous Is The Threat Of AI To Humanity?

Modern Wisdom

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The Alignment Problem in AI

The alignment problem is how do you get an AI system to be quote aligned with human values and preferences and goals? It's the so-called principal agent problem in companies. In terms of AI, it would be how do you create an AI system that actually respects what the human users want it to do or what they really wanted to do?

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