Value Space and “Good” Human Values Human values can be conceptualised as occupying regions in a vast objective multidimensional “value space.” These regions reflect preferences for cooperation, survival, flourishing, and minimising harm, among other positive traits. If TAI / SI can approximate the subset of human values deemed “good” (e.g., compassion, fairness, cooperation), while avoiding…
Implications for AI Safety and Indirect Normativity The challenge of understanding value space has moved from a philosophical curiosity to an urgent technical problem. As we approach the development of advanced artificial intelligence, the structure of value and our ability to specify it has become perhaps the most critical challenge facing humanity. This challenge assumes…
Most arguments about AI alignment begin with the question of which values to give a machine, skipping the prior question of whether there is anything for values to be right or wrong about. I think there is, and if so the alignment problem changes shape. It changes from the form where alignment means transmitting our…