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AI Safety Community Focuses Little on Direct Superintelligent Alignment

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A recent post on LessWrong highlights that a surprisingly small portion of the AI safety community is directly engaged in superintelligent alignment research. The author notes that while many work on related areas like capability evaluations, risk assessment, and policy, fewer are focused on ensuring future superintelligent AIs will align with human values. Specific groups mentioned as working on alignment include the Alignment Research Center, Sequent, and parts of GDM, with some scattered individuals at universities. AI

IMPACT Highlights a potential gap in direct research for superintelligent AI alignment, suggesting a need for more focused efforts in this critical area.

RANK_REASON The cluster discusses an opinion piece about the focus of research within the AI safety community, rather than a new release, product, or significant event.

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AI Safety Community Focuses Little on Direct Superintelligent Alignment

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  1. LessWrong (AI tag) TIER_1 English(EN) · Chi Nguyen ·

    PSA: Almost nobody is working on alignment

    <p><span>People often assume that a large fraction of the AI safety community works on alignment. As far as we're aware, this is not true. Most people are not working on making sure superintelligent AIs are aligned with human values or follow human instructions.</span></p><p><spa…

  2. LessWrong (AI tag) TIER_1 English(EN) · Chi Nguyen ·

    PSA: Almost nobody is directly working on superintelligent alignment

    <p><span>Edit:</span></p><p><span>The original title was unnecessarily provocative. This was a very quick post inspired by talking to someone who assumed that a large fraction of the safety community are working on directly figuring out how to align superintelligent AIs.</span></…

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