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AI & Machine Learning · Intermediate

AI Alignment

The effort to ensure AI systems pursue goals and behave in accordance with human intentions and values.

Definition

Alignment techniques include RLHF, Constitutional AI, preference optimization, and evaluation for issues such as deception, sycophancy and reward hacking. It becomes more critical as systems gain autonomy.

Exam tip

Alignment is about matching model behavior to human intent; RLHF and Constitutional AI are alignment techniques.

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