What is the AI alignment problem and how can it be solved? | New Scientist

Artificial intelligence systems will do what you ask but not necessarily what you meant. The challenge is to make sure they act in line with human’s complex, nuanced values

An Alignment Journal: Features and policies — LessWrong

We previously announced a forthcoming research journal for AI alignment. This cross-post from our blog describes our tentative plans for the features…

AI FOR EPISTEMICS & COORDINATION

Civilization and technology have radically improved the human condition. Nonetheless, the world sometimes goes in directions which essentially nobody would prefer — e.g., nuclear arms races, unexpected financial crashes, predatory marketing, or ubiquitous political misinformation.

Thoughts on AI in academia

PhD-level thinking, LLM bias, alignment, AGI, data centers, and AI politics

Are We Betting on the Wrong Kind of Intelligence?

AI optimizes for the world as it was. Rewilding could be what prepares us for the world as it is.

How Americans see AI impacting human skills; its role in science, matchmaking, religion and more

Majorities don’t want AI to give advice about religion or love. But many say AI should help forecast weather, search for financial crimes, develop medicine and more.

Daniel's Blog · You Don’t Align An AI, You Align With It

The people writing alignment policy are not the people whose work is being replaced by AI.

Inside India’s scramble for AI independence

Structural challenges and the nation’s many languages have made it tough to develop foundational AI models. But the government is keen not to be left behind.

AI Almost Started a U.S.–China War — and No One Seems to Care

The tech world is too busy dreaming up imaginary doomsday scenarios to focus on a very real one that flared up between nuclear powers.

Human perspectives on AI · Global Voices

This GV Spotlight edition will explore how the use of, promotion of, and resistance to artificial intelligence is playing out for the Global Majority.

What the West can learn from AI optimists in the rest of the world

The developing world’s enthusiastic adoption of AI and necessity-driven innovations offer lessons for an anxiety-ridden West.

A Three-Facet Framework for AI Alignment • Grace Kind

Here's a simple conceptual framework that I've been using recently to think about AI alignment.

Gradual disempowerment | 80,000 Hours

The proliferation of advanced AI systems may lead to the gradual disempowerment of humanity, even if efforts to prevent them from becoming power-seeking or scheming are successful. Humanity may be incentivised to hand over increasing amounts of control to AIs, giving them power over the economy, politics, culture, and more. Over time, humanity's interests may be sidelined and our control over the future undermined, potentially constituting an existential catastrophe. There's disagreement over how serious a problem this is and how it relates to [other concerns about AI alignment](https://80000hours.o