I've been in many conversations where I've mentioned the idea of using neuroscience for outer alignment, and the people who I'm talking to usually seem pretty confused about why I would want to do that. Well, I'm confused about why one wouldn't want to do that, and in this post I explain why.

As far as I see it, there are three main strategies people have for trying to deal with AI alignment in worlds where AI alignment is hard.

Value alignment
Corrigibility
Control/scalable alignment

In my opinion, these are all great efforts, but I personally like the idea of working on value alignment directly. Why? First some negatives of the others:

Corrigibility requires moderate to extreme levels of philosophical deconfusion, an effort worth doing for some, but a very small set not including myself. Another negative of this approach is that by-default the robust solutions to [...]

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First published:
March 18th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jiSuMT7vupWFwktzq/neuroscience-and-alignment

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“Neuroscience and Alignment” by Garrett Baker

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“Neuroscience and Alignment” by Garrett Baker