Alignment
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
ensur[ing] that powerful AI is properly aligned with human values. ... The challenge of alignment has two parts. The first part is technical and focuses on how to formally encode values or principles in artificial agents so that they reliably do what they ought to do. ... The second part of the value alignment question is normative. It asks what values or principles, if any, we ought to encode in artificial agents.
Framework senses
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- ensur[ing] that powerful AI is properly aligned with human values. ... The challenge of alignment has two parts. The first part is technical and focuses on how to formally encode values or principles in artificial agents so that they reliably do what they ought to do. ... The second part of the value alignment question is normative. It asks what values or principles, if any, we ought to encode in artificial agents.
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- the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other
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- the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines
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- (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac
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- an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty