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David Krueger–Coordination, Alignment, Academia

The Inside View

CHAPTER

The Alignment Problem in Foundation Models

Alignment versus existential safety, I think they're both going more mainstream. There's at least this obvious problem with foundation models where it's like the pre-training objective is not aligned. You can't really tell if it's capable of doing something because you don't know if it's trying. Um, and that's that's the alignment problem as I think of it.

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