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Jeremie Harris: Realistic Alignment and AI Policy

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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The Importance of Goals in Evolution

In the Mario game, a player learns to optimize for an objective that was other than the objective we thought we were giving it. The classic example is human evolution and how humans ended up learning an objective different from the one we were trained on. They're all these like slightly misaligned things that just deviate from what evolution actually wanted us to do.

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