Recommendations for Technical AI Safety Research Directions

Anthropic’s Alignment Science team conducts technical research aimed at mitigating the risk of catastrophes caused by future advanced AI systems, such as mass loss of life or permanent loss of human control. A central challenge we face is identifying concrete technical work that can be done today to prevent these risks. Future worlds where our research matters—that is, worlds that carry substantial catastrophic risk from AI—will have been radically transformed by AI development. Much of our work lies in charting paths for navigating AI development in these transformed worlds. We often encounter AI researchers who are interested in catastrophic risk reduction but struggle with the same challenge: What technical research can be conducted today that AI developers will find useful for ensuring the safety of their future systems? In this blog post we share some of our thoughts on this question. To create this post, we asked Alignment Science team members to write descriptions of open proble

Recommendations for Technical AI Safety Research Directions Alignment Science Blog Recommendations for Technical AI Safety Research Directions Anthropic’s Alignment Science team conducts technical research aimed at mitigating the risk of catastrophes caused by future advanced AI systems, such as mass loss of life or permanent loss of human control. A central challenge we face is identifying concrete technical work that can be done today to prevent these risks. Future worlds where our research matters—that is, worlds that carry substantial catastrophic risk from AI—will have been radically tran

saved by

• Neel Redkar
• Vincent Cheng
• Yudhister Joel Kumar
• Timothy Kostolansky
• Sarah
• Michael Chen
• Davis Brown
• Emanuel Ruzak

related reading

• Core views on AI safety: When, why, what, and how \ Anthropicanthropic.com
• Research Areas in AI Control (The Alignment Project by UK AISI) — AI Alignment Forumalignmentforum.org
• Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technologydarioamodei.com
• Research Areas in Methods for Post-training and Elicitation (The Alignment Project by UK AISI) — AI Alignment Forumalignmentforum.org
• Research Areas in Benchmark Design and Evaluation (The Alignment Project by UK AISI) — AI Alignment Forumalignmentforum.org
• Core views on AI safety: When, why, what, and how \ Anthropicanthropic.com
• 7+ tractable directions in AI control — AI Alignment Forumalignmentforum.org
• Research Areas in Evaluation and Guarantees in Reinforcement Learning (The Alignment Project by UK AISI) — AI Alignment Forumalignmentforum.org
• Research Areas in Interpretability (The Alignment Project by UK AISI) — AI Alignment Forumalignmentforum.org
• Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technologydarioamodei.com
• AI Safety | Arkosevictoriabrook.github.io
• The case for ensuring that powerful AIs are controlled — LessWronglesswrong.com