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The Artificiality of Alignment - by jessica dai - Reboot

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How are we actually “aligning AI with human values”?

Long essay today; let’s get straight to it. (Note — you might have a better time with footnotes on web/app than email, if that matters to you.) Nature by Alan Warburton, CC 4.0 By Jessica Dai Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk” (abbreviated “x-risk”) has reached the mainstream. Who could have foreseen that the smallcaps onomatopoeia “ꜰᴏᴏᴍ” — both evocative of and directly derived from children’s cartoons — might show up uncritically in the New Yorker? More than ever, the public discourse about AI and its risks, and about what can or should be done about those risks, is…

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