(My understanding of) What Everyone in Technical Alignment is Doing and Why - LessWrong

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x (My understanding of) What Everyone in Technical Alignment is Doing and Why — LessWrong Research Agendas AI Alignment Fieldbuilding AI Curated 415 (My understanding of) What Everyone in Technical Alignment is Doing and Why by Thomas Larsen , elifland 29th Aug 2022 AI Alignment Forum 45 min read 90 415 Ω 95 Epistemic Status: My best guess Epistemic Effort: ~75 hours of work put into this document Contributions: Thomas wrote ~85% of this, Eli wrote ~15% and helped edit + structure it. Unless specified otherwise, writing in the first person is by Thomas and so are the opinions. Thanks to Mirand

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