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Goal-directedness is behavioral, not structural

📅 2020
public awareness
⚪ Common
#ai #goal-directedness #rationality

📖 Description

Goal-directedness is the term used by the AI Safety community to point to a specific property: following a goal. It comes from Rohin Shah's [post](https://www.alignmentforum.org/s/4dHMdK5TLN6xcqtyc/p/DfcywmqRSkBaCB6Ma) in his [sequence](https://www.alignmentforum.org/s/4dHMdK5TLN6xcqtyc), but the intuition pervades many safety issues and current AI approaches. Yet it lacks a formal definition, or even a decomposition into more or less formal subcomponents.

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Research +5 Always
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