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AI faces challenges in learning to police social norms

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This post explores the difficulty of teaching AI systems to identify and police unusual social norm violations. It suggests that such policing might be inherently challenging for AI due to the nuanced and context-dependent nature of social behaviors. The author links to a related article on Substack for further discussion. AI

IMPACT AI systems may struggle with nuanced social policing, requiring further research into their ability to understand and enforce complex human norms.

RANK_REASON The item is a blog post discussing a conceptual challenge for AI, not a primary release or significant industry event.

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AI faces challenges in learning to police social norms

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  1. LessWrong (AI tag) TIER_1 English(EN) · KatjaGrace ·

    Is social policing of unusual norm violations hard to learn?

    <p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Many social norms have the format ‘You shouldn’t do X. If you do X, people should punish you. If people don’t punish you, other people should punish them’.</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">People mostly pick up the specific…

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