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AI Safety Fundamentals: Governance

What is AI Alignment?

May 1, 2024
AI Alignment expert Adam Jones discusses aligning AIs with human intentions to prevent disasters. Topics include resilience and security in AI systems, outer and inner misalignment examples, and the ambiguity of failures in AI alignment.
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  • AI alignment is essential to ensure AI systems achieve their creators' intentions, preventing potential risks and harms.
  • Inner and outer alignment problems highlight the complexity of ensuring AI systems correctly follow intended objectives and desired outcomes.

Deep dives

AI Safety: Reducing AI Risks

AI safety focuses on reducing AI risks to decrease expected harm from AI systems. This broad concept encompasses sub-fields like alignment, moral philosophy, competence, governance, resilience, and security, each contributing to overall AI safety.

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