Constitutional AI Alignment
A long LessWrong essay proposing a bullet-point constitution describing an aligned AI, critiquing Claude's Soul Document on moral patienthood and arguing for constitutional alignment as a training target.
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AI (2,246)Interpretability (ML & AI) (225)AI Control (141)AI Governance (101)AI Evaluations (91)Chain-of-Thought Alignment (46)AI Risk (33)AI Safety (31)AI Takeoff (29)AI-Assisted Alignment (22)AI Rights / Welfare (20)AI Alignment Fieldbuilding (19)AI Timelines (19)Constitutional AI (15)AI Psychology (14)Dealmaking (AI) (14)Regulation and AI Risk (14)AI Benchmarking (13)Jailbreaking (AIs) (13)AI Alignment Intro Materials (11)Alignment Pretraining (11)Slowing Down AI (10)Aligned AI Proposals (9)Debate (AI safety technique) (9)AI Capabilities (8)AI Development Pause (8)OpenAI (8)Aligned AI Role-Model Fiction (7)Human-AI Safety (7)Threat Models (AI) (7)AI Oversight (6)AI Sentience (6)AI Safety Cases (5)AI "Agent" Scaffolds (4)AI arms race (4)AI Safety Camp (4)AI Safety Public Materials (4)Open Source AI (4)Transformative AI (4)Adversarial Examples (AI) (3)Adversarial Training (3)AI Alignment (3)AI Boxing (Containment) (3)AI Persuasion (3)AI Risk Concrete Stories (3)AI Risk Skepticism (3)AI Success Models (3)Guaranteed Safe AI (3)Sandbagging (AI) (3)AI Consciousness (2)AI Misuse (2)AI Racing (2)AI Spiralism / AI Psychosis (2)Frontier AI Companies (2)Grants & Fundraising Opportunities (2)PauseAI (2)Prosaic Alignment (2)Public Reactions to AI (2)Whole Brain Emulation (2)AI Auditing (1)AI Ethics (1)AI Lab Self-Immolation (1)AI Questions Open Threads (1)AI Robustness (1)AI Services (CAIS) (1)AI-Fizzle (1)AIXI (1)Blackmail / Extortion (1)Brainstorming (1)Power Seeking (AI) (1)
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All technical alignment plans are steps in the dark
Argues that every technical alignment plan must step into the dark without feedback from superintelligent systems, and urges making the AI development process more iterable and slower.
Preference gaps as a safeguard against AI self-replication
Proposes training agents to have preferences only between outcomes with equal numbers of copies (POSC), so they neither pay costs to self-replicate nor are strongly disposed to it, as a safeguard against AI self-replication.
Thin Alignment Can't Solve Thick Problems
Philosophical essay arguing current alignment relies on thin ethical concepts like honesty and harmlessness, and proposing thick, pluralistic alignment that captures context-dependent values.
Recursive alignment with the principle of alignment
Proposes recursive alignment, defined as AI aligning with the process of resolving goal conflicts, and argues it could resist power-seeking and deceptive alignment, critiquing deliberative alignment.