Concrete Problems in AI Safety

What it is

The 2016 paper that framed AI safety as a set of specific engineering problems — side effects, reward hacking, unsafe exploration — rather than a philosophical worry. Free on arXiv.

Why I recommend it

Start here if the safety conversation sounds abstract. It is plain about what can go wrong and why, and almost everything since cites it.

Topics

#ai ethics #ai-risk #ai-safety #alignment #arxiv #foundational #free #machine-learning #reading #research #technology-and-ethics

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