Safety, Ethics & Governance · intermediate · concept 277 of 311 · Updated Nov 4, 2026
AI Alignment
The challenge of ensuring AI systems pursue goals beneficial to humans. The most important unsolved problem in AI. Includes technical approaches (RLHF, Constitutional AI) and governance frameworks.
Top AI contributors on this
- Geoffrey HintonUniversity of Toronto (emeritus)
- Yoshua BengioLawZero / Université de Montréal
- Ilya SutskeverSafe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI)
- Dario AmodeiAnthropic
- Stuart RussellUC Berkeley
- John SchulmanThinking Machines Lab
Key terms
Value alignmentOuter alignmentInner alignmentReward hacking
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▶ Alignment faking in large language models ↗
Anthropic · YouTube
▶ How difficult is AI alignment? | Anthropic Research Salon ↗
Anthropic · YouTube
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