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AI Alignment Needs Data-Driven Shift Like Early Image Recognition

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OPGillian Hadfield#1597Gillian Hadfield@GHADFIELD

We learned this lesson once in AI. Old-fashioned systems tried to specify rules for recognizing images. It didn’t work. Feeding machines data and letting them discover patterns did. The same shift is needed in alignment.

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REPLYGillian Hadfield#1597Gillian Hadfield@GHADFIELD

Humans don’t follow a values list. We make predictions about how a community will respond to a behavior. That capacity, normative competence, is what we should be building into AI. Talked about it on Ethical Machines. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ethical-machines/id1751550186?i=1000769954876

Gillian HadfieldGillian Hadfield@ghadfield

We learned this lesson once in AI. Old-fashioned systems tried to specify rules for recognizing images. It didn’t work. Feeding machines data and letting them discover patterns did. The same shift is needed in alignment.

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