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Value Loading (the Value-Loading Problem)

The practical problem of getting human values into an AI system in the first place — not deciding which values are right, but finding a way to specify or teach them so the system actually holds them as goals.

Origin

Framed as “the value-loading problem” by philosopher Nick Bostrom in his 2014 book “Superintelligence,” which surveys candidate methods (explicit specification, evolutionary selection, reinforcement learning, value accretion, motivational scaffolding) and finds each one wanting.

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