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In the diverse array of work investigating the nature of human values from psychology, philosophy and social sciences, there is a clear consensus that values guide behaviour. More recently, a recognition that values provide a means to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Nardine Osman , Mark d'Inverno

One of the major challenges we face with ethical AI today is developing computational systems whose reasoning and behaviour are provably aligned with human values. Human values, however, are notorious for being ambiguous, contradictory and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Nardine Osman , Mark d'Inverno

The concepts of ``human-centered AI'' and ``value-based decision'' have gained significant attention in both research and industry. However, many critical aspects remain underexplored and require further investigation. In particular, there…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Sz-Ting Tzeng , Frank Dignum

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

The introduction of artificial intelligence into activities traditionally carried out by human beings produces brutal changes. This is not without consequences for human values. This paper is about designing and implementing models of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Fabrice Muhlenbach

How can we build AI systems that can learn any set of individual human values both quickly and safely, avoiding causing harm or violating societal standards for acceptable behavior during the learning process? We explore the effects of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Andrea Wynn , Ilia Sucholutsky , Thomas L. Griffiths

Aligning AI systems with human values and the value-based preferences of various stakeholders (their value systems) is key in ethical AI. In value-aware AI systems, decision-making draws upon explicit computational representations of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Andrés Holgado-Sánchez , Holger Billhardt , Sascha Ossowski , Sara Degli-Esposti

An important step in the development of value alignment (VA) systems in AI is understanding how values can interrelate with facts. Designers of future VA systems will need to utilize a hybrid approach in which ethical reasoning and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Tae Wan Kim , Thomas Donaldson , John Hooker

Characterizing human values is a topic deeply interwoven with the sciences, humanities, art, and many other human endeavors. In recent years, a number of thinkers have argued that accelerating trends in computer science, cognitive science,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Gopal P. Sarma , Nick J. Hay

This paper addresses the question of how to align AI systems with human values and situates it within a wider body of thought regarding technology and value. Far from existing in a vacuum, there has long been an interest in the ability of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Iason Gabriel , Vafa Ghazavi

We propose the creation of a systematic effort to identify and replicate key findings in neuropsychology and allied fields related to understanding human values. Our aim is to ensure that research underpinning the value alignment problem of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Gopal P. Sarma , Nick J. Hay , Adam Safron

As AI systems advance beyond human capabilities, scalable oversight becomes critical: how can we supervise AI that exceeds our abilities? A key challenge is that human evaluators may form incorrect beliefs about AI behavior in complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Leon Lang , Patrick Forré

Discussion of AI alignment (alignment between humans and AI systems) has focused on value alignment, broadly referring to creating AI systems that share human values. We argue that before we can even attempt to align values, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Sunayana Rane , Polyphony J. Bruna , Ilia Sucholutsky , Christopher Kello , Thomas L. Griffiths

We argue that enabling human-AI dialogue, purposed to support joint reasoning (i.e., 'inquiry'), is important for ensuring that AI decision making is aligned with human values and preferences. In particular, we point to logic-based models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Elfia Bezou-Vrakatseli , Oana Cocarascu , Sanjay Modgil

principles that should govern autonomous AI systems. It essentially states that a system's goals and behaviour should be aligned with human values. But how to ensure value alignment? In this paper we first provide a formal model to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Carles Sierra , Nardine Osman , Pablo Noriega , Jordi Sabater-Mir , Antoni Perelló

Background: Value alignment in computer science research is often used to refer to the process of aligning artificial intelligence with humans, but the way the phrase is used often lacks precision. Objectives: In this paper, we conduct a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jack McKinlay , Marina De Vos , Janina A. Hoffmann , Andreas Theodorou

Value learning is a crucial aspect of safe and ethical AI. This is primarily pursued by methods inferring human values from behaviour. However, humans care about much more than we are able to demonstrate through our actions. Consequently,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Paul de Font-Reaulx

Aligning AI agents with human values is challenging due to diverse and subjective notions of values. Standard alignment methods often aggregate crowd feedback, which can result in the suppression of unique or minority preferences. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Carter Blair , Kate Larson , Edith Law

Beneficial societal outcomes cannot be guaranteed by aligning individual AI systems with the intentions of their operators or users. Even an AI system that is perfectly aligned to the intentions of its operating organization can lead to bad…

From its inception, AI has had a rather ambivalent relationship to humans---swinging between their augmentation and replacement. Now, as AI technologies enter our everyday lives at an ever increasing pace, there is a greater need for AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Subbarao Kambhampati
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