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Alignment

nounid 4730·updated May 18, 2026
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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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Requirement70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Alignments
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Alignments'

Framework definitions

Artificial Intelligence, Values, and Alignment1 senseview framework →
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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.
Wordset Dictionary4 sensesview framework →
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the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other
§2
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
§4
an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
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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