The paper discusses the ‘alignment challenge’ in artificial intelligence (AI), which is the issue of ensuring AI behavior aligns with human values. The author introduces ‘oblivious agents’, designed to function without fully understanding their ultimate purpose. These agents have an effective utility function, an aggregation of known and hidden sub-functions. The study shows that such agents, while behaving rationally, form an internal approximation of the designers’ intentions and act in a way that maximizes alignment with these intentions, even as their intelligence level increases.
Publication date: 16 Feb 2024
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Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.09734
