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Re:AI Causes Real Harm. Let’s Focus on That over the End-of-... by scott-smith_us on Saturday August 12, 2023 @03:51PM (#37103636)
Alignment with human norms and values. Yes, that's not a well-defined thing. But to paraphrase, "I know misalignment when I see it", for example when an AI suggests something like "feeding the homeless to the hungry".

No one is claiming that alignment is a well-defined thing with crisp edges. They're saying that the mechanisms of AIs will favor solutions without regard to any specific constraints we haven't explicitly stated.

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Re:AI Causes Real Harm. Let’s Focus on That over the End-of-... by janalsncm on Saturday August 12, 2023 @07:29PM (#37105155)
> Alignment with human norms and values. Yes, that's not a well-defined thing.

What human norms and values? The more I think about this topic, the more I find it to be an impossible task. There is a huge spectrum of norms and values which are held as sacred by some and sacrilege by others.

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