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As AI becomes more capable, we entrust it with more general and consequential tasks. The risks from failure grow more severe with increasing task scope. It is therefore important to understand how extremely capable AI models will fail: Will…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Alexander Hägele , Aryo Pradipta Gema , Henry Sleight , Ethan Perez , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

Artificial Intelligence (AI) achieved super-human performance in a broad variety of domains. We say that an AI is made Artificially Stupid on a task when some limitations are deliberately introduced to match a human's ability to do the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Michaël Trazzi , Roman V. Yampolskiy

Machine learning has demonstrated remarkable prediction accuracy over i.i.d data, but the accuracy often drops when tested with data from another distribution. In this paper, we aim to offer another view of this problem in a perspective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Haohan Wang , Zeyi Huang , Hanlin Zhang , Yong Jae Lee , Eric Xing

Producing an artificial general intelligence (AGI) has been an elusive goal in artificial intelligence (AI) research for some time. An AGI would have the capability, like a human, to be exposed to a new problem domain, learn about it and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jeremy Straub

Artificial intelligence safety research focuses on aligning individual language models with human values, yet deployed AI systems increasingly operate as interacting populations where social influence may override individual alignment. Here…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-12 Giordano De Marzo , Alessandro Bellina , Claudio Castellano , Viola Priesemann , David Garcia

AI risks are typically framed around physical threats to humanity, a loss of control or an accidental error causing humanity's extinction. However, I argue in line with the gradual disempowerment thesis, that there is an underappreciated…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Joshua Krook

The fundamental goal of artificial intelligence (AI) is to mimic the core cognitive activities of human. Despite tremendous success in the AI research, most of existing methods have only single-cognitive ability. To overcome this limitation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Nanyi Fei , Zhiwu Lu , Yizhao Gao , Guoxing Yang , Yuqi Huo , Jingyuan Wen , Haoyu Lu , Ruihua Song , Xin Gao , Tao Xiang , Hao Sun , Ji-Rong Wen

This paper looks at philosophical questions that arise in the context of AI alignment. It defends three propositions. First, normative and technical aspects of the AI alignment problem are interrelated, creating space for productive…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Iason Gabriel

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes deeply integrated into critical infrastructures and everyday life, ensuring its safe deployment is one of humanity's most urgent challenges. Current AI models prioritize task optimization over safety,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Joshua T. S. Hewson

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has positioned data governance as a critical concern for responsible AI development. While frameworks exist for conventional AI systems, the potential emergence of Artificial General…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Masayuki Hatta

The AGI alignment problem has a bimodal distribution of outcomes with most outcomes clustering around the poles of total success and existential, catastrophic failure. Consequently, attempts to solve AGI alignment should, all else equal,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-18 G Gordon Worley

Conventional wisdom holds that a misaligned artificial superintelligence (ASI) will destroy humanity. But the problem of constraining a powerful agent is not new. I apply classic economic logic of interjurisdictional competition,…

General Economics · Economics 2025-11-11 Henry A. Thompson

A traditional approach to assessing emerging intelligence in the theory of intelligent systems is based on the similarity, "imitation" of human-like actions and behaviors, benchmarking the performance of intelligent systems on the scale of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Serge Dolgikh

Given that Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly permeates our lives, it is critical that we systematically align AI objectives with the goals and values of humans. The human-AI alignment problem stems from the impracticality of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-07-05 John Nay , James Daily

Existing alignment research is dominated by concerns about safety and preventing harm: safeguards, controllability, and compliance. This paradigm of alignment parallels early psychology's focus on mental illness: necessary but incomplete.…

The development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) promises to be a major event. Along with its many potential benefits, it also raises serious safety concerns (Bostrom, 2014). The intention of this paper is to provide an easily…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Tom Everitt , Gary Lea , Marcus Hutter

AI alignment research is the field of study dedicated to ensuring that artificial intelligence (AI) benefits humans. As machine intelligence gets more advanced, this research is becoming increasingly important. Researchers in the field…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Jan H. Kirchner , Logan Smith , Jacques Thibodeau , Kyle McDonell , Laria Reynolds

This position paper states that AI Alignment in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) should be considered a dynamic and interaction-dependent process that heavily depends on the social environment where agents are deployed, either collaborative,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Florian Carichon , Aditi Khandelwal , Marylou Fauchard , Golnoosh Farnadi

Deep neural networks have achieved success across a wide range of applications, including as models of human behavior and neural representations in vision tasks. However, neural network training and human learning differ in fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Lukas Muttenthaler , Klaus Greff , Frieda Born , Bernhard Spitzer , Simon Kornblith , Michael C. Mozer , Klaus-Robert Müller , Thomas Unterthiner , Andrew K. Lampinen

The field of artificial intelligence has seen explosive growth and exponential success. The last phase of development showcased deep learnings ability to solve a variety of difficult problems across a multitude of domains. Many of these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Ananta Nair , Farnoush Banaei-Kashani