The Alignment Problem - Brian Christian

Seminar by Brian Christian, at the UCL Centre for AI. Recorded on the 27th January 2021.

Abstract
With the incredible growth of machine learning over recent years has come an increasing concern about whether ML systems' objectives truly capture their human designers' intent: the so-called "alignment problem." Over the last five years, these questions of both ethics and safety have moved from the margins of the field to become arguably its most central concerns. The result is something of a movement: a vibrant, multifaceted, interdisciplinary effort that is producing some of the most exciting research happening today. Brian Christian, visiting scholar at UC Berkeley and author of the acclaimed bestsellers The Most Human Human and Algorithms to Live By, will survey this landscape of recent progress and the frontier of open questions that remain.

Bio
Brian Christian is the author of The Most Human Human, which was named a Wall Street Journal bestseller, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and a New Yorker favorite book of the year. He is the author, with Tom Griffiths, of Algorithms to Live By, a #1 Audible bestseller, Amazon best science book of the year and MIT Technology Review best book of the year. Together, they have been translated into nineteen languages. Christian is a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley, where he is an affiliate of the Center for IT Research in the Interest of Society as well as the Center for Human-Compatible AI. He lives in San Francisco.

[Milan_Rosko]

srsly this is a very weak take. Look somewhere else.