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AI alignment problem

The alignment problem asks how we ensure that increasingly powerful AI systems pursue goals that actually match what we want rather than what we literally ask for—a gap that grows more dangerous as machines become more capable. It's less about evil robots and more about the mundane difficulty of translating human values into machine instructions.

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