Why Alignment Urgently Matters
There’s a lot of misunderstanding about what AI alignment is, why it urgently matters, and what we actually mean when we say “AI can end the world.”
In the following 5 steps and their corresponding pages, we help you understand.
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What exactly is AI “alignment”? We explain that AI alignment is about designing powerful AI systems to ensure they try to do what we want them to do.
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Aligning AI seems simple, so why is it worth discussing? Why is alignment difficult?
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Is unaligned AI that bad? How would a chatbot, even if it was smart, take over the world? In Unaligned AI: default dangerous, we explain why AI's default trajectory is lethal for humans.
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Okay, but we’ll figure it out when the time comes. 1) We have lots of time: superintelligent AI is far away. 2) We’ve always figured out technical challenges in the past. Why is this urgent?
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No creature less intelligent than us has been able to align humans. But we do have one advantage: we get to build this stuff. So: How we actually align AI?
