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Aligned with Whom? Direct and social goals for AI systems

📅 2022
technical research breakthrough
🔵 Rare

📖 Description

1 Aligned with Whom? Direct and social goals for AI systems1 Anton Korinek (Brookings, University of Virginia, and GovAI) and Avital Balwit (Oxford) May 2022 As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more powerful and widespread, the AI alignment problem ? how to ensure that AI systems pursue the goals that we want them to pursue ? has garnered growing attention. This article distinguishes two types of alignment problems depending on whose goals we consider, and analyzes the different solutions necessitated by each. The direct alignment problem considers whether an AI system accomplishes the goals of the entity operating it. In contrast, the social alignment problem considers the effects of an AI system on larger groups or on society more broadly. In particular, it also considers whether the system imposes externalities on others. Whereas solutions to the direct alignment problem center around more robust implementation, social alignment problems typically arise b...

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Research proposed: up Always
Papers proposed: up Always
Vibey Doom proposed: up Always

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