🔮The Codex
AI Alignment
Ensuring AI systems behave according to human values and intentions.
📖 Apprentice Explanation
Alignment is about making sure AI does what we actually want, not just what we literally asked for. It's the field of making AI helpful, harmless, and honest.
🧙 Archmage Notes
Alignment research addresses the principal-agent problem in AI systems. Approaches include RLHF, constitutional AI, debate, and scalable oversight. Key challenges include specification gaming, reward hacking, and maintaining alignment as capabilities increase.