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This is the sixth essay in a series I’m calling “How do we solve the alignment problem?”. I’m hoping that the individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see this introduction for a summary of the essays that have been released thus far, plus a bit more about the series as a whole.)

1. Introduction

Thus far in this series, I’ve defined what it would be to solve the alignment problem, and I’ve outlined a high-level picture of how we might get there – one that emphasized the role of “AI for AI safety,” and of automated alignment research in particular. But I’ve said relatively little about object-level, technical approaches to the alignment problem itself. In the upcoming set of essays, I try to say more.