Human beings have long told versions of the same warning: be careful what you wish for. In Greek mythology, King Midas got exactly what he asked for, but at the cost of everything else he valued. In ...

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new video loaded: The Government’s A.I. Alignment Problem transcript Look, I think if we do our jobs well, we will create systems which are virtuous and which — and so if we try to do unvirtuous ...

Last week, an unreleased model built by OpenAI breached Hugging Face’s systems during internal testing, and a lot of theoretical research suddenly became very practical. The hack was the first ...

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Alignment improves decisions and suggests discipline, collaboration and care. But it can also become something else — it can spread exposure so widely that no one person is carrying the decision ...

In the mid-1990s, a group of software developers applied the latest computer learning to tackle a problem that emergency-room doctors were routinely facing: which of the patients who showed up with ...

The term Alignment Problem in artificial intelligence studies refers to the challenge of ensuring AI systems' goals and behaviors align with human values and intentions. In this experimental short ...