AI Alignment: Why It's Hard, and Where to Start
A lecture or talk by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Machine Intelligence Research Institute blog, dated 28 December 2016. post date on intelligence.org; the talk was given at Stanford in May 2016.
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- AI Alignment: Why It's Hard, and Where to Start Machine Intelligence Research Institute blog (intelligence.org) · published 2016-12-28 · Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 829f9c018dc638c51e0b0a9b63f4c7a87a080068a7f81adf4f173c1592e1956d). Abridged transcript posted 28 December 2016 of a talk given at Stanford University in May 2016; current page as served on 2026-10-29.
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- Difficulty of alignmentYudkowsky's talk transcript posted in December 2016 states that advanced AIs are not going to be aligned automatically and that AI alignment is difficult in the way rockets and space probes are difficult.2016-12-28 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Difficulty of alignment: propositions page →
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