HR!Day722 - Al Alignment Summit Day 1: Unpacking the term "Alignment" - Peggy Dulany & Dr. Lisa Miller
Day 722 Mon 6/19/23 Al Alignment Summit Day 1: Unpacking the term "Alignment"
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This Week: AI Alignment
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AI Alignment is a term used to describe how aligned the “processing” and behavior of an AI is to human interests. High alignment means a positive AI future, low alignment leads to a dystopian one.
Experts agree: in the near term, our civilization hinges on AI alignment.
The immense difficulties with it are at the core of what moved prominent figures in AI to demand a 6 months hold on AI development.
Even the lead scientist Ilya Sutskever of OpenAI in a recent interview stated:
“I would not underestimate the difficulty of alignment of models that are actually smarter than us, of models that are capable of misrepresenting their intentions. It's something to think about a lot and do research.
Oftentimes, academic researchers ask me what’s the best place where they can contribute. And alignment research is one place where academic researchers can make very meaningful contributions.
A mathematical definition (of alignment) is unlikely. Rather than achieving one mathematical definition, I think we will achieve multiple definitions that look at alignment from different aspects. And that this is how we will get the assurance that we want. “
The goal of our interdisciplinary series is to help explore these multiple definitions.
We explore the computer science term AI alignment via novel perspectives from evolutionary biology, sociology, philosophy as well as insights from the wisdom tradition.
DAY ONE: AI Alignment Summit: Unpacking
Unpacking “alignment”: Exploring human alignment in genetics, society, culture and spirituality
What does alignment mean applied in human species and civilization?
What are mechanisms of alignment in genetics, society, and culture at large?
What is the definition of alignment? Alignment to what? The principle of life, the greatest common good? What are the most useful philosophical and spiritual ideas that define alignment?
Panelist:
- Peggy Dulany, Ph.D. (Doctorate from Harvard) Peggy Dulany is Chair of Synergos, a global organization building trust and collaboration to dismantle systems that create the most urgent problems of our time: poverty, social injustice, and climate change.
David E. Shaw is Managing Partner of Black Point Group, with wide-ranging interests in technology companies, impact investing and public service activism. His business creation, leadership investment and board experience includes IDEXX Laboratories, Ikaria Pharmaceuticals, Covetrus, Cyteir Modern Meadow, Sapphire Energy, Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Itaconix among others. He has produced many short films including Second Century Stewardship, and via Agribusiness Associates, has been a strategy consultant to consumer product, food and agriculture enterprises.
Positive Psychiatry, Clinical Faculty Cornell Medical School
Moderators:
Dr. Lisa Miller
Convener:
Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University
72 Participants
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