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The Alignment Problem

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What’s it about?

As AI systems grow more powerful, they can become dangerously literal—optimizing for what we say, not what we mean. This book explores the urgent challenge of aligning machine intelligence with human values.

You’ll learn

  • Why AI can be too literal for its own good
  • How reward hacking leads to unintended disasters
  • The hidden biases in supervised learning
  • Why alignment is a never-ending process