OpenAI Blog · Feb 19, 2019
AI safety needs social scientists
Reviewed by Errol Vogt, Site support technician & online learning analyst · original summary · editorial policy
AI safety needs social scientists. We’ve written a paper arguing that long-term AI safety research needs social scientists to ensure AI alignment algorithms succeed when actual humans are involved. Properly aligning advanced AI systems with human values requires resolving many uncertainties related to the psychology of human rationality, emotion, and biases. The aim of this paper is to spark further collaboration between machine learning and social science researchers, and we plan to hire social scientists to work on this full t… This update is relevant for small-office operators tracking changes in their tools.
Operator takeaway: For operators: review whether 'AI safety needs social scientists' affects your current setup before relying on it in production.
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