Methodological reflections for AI alignment research using human feedback

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.06859v1
• Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 14:27:33 GMT
• Title: Methodological reflections for AI alignment research using human feedback
• Authors: Thilo Hagendorff, Sarah Fabi
• Abstract summary: AI alignment aims to investigate whether AI technologies align with human interests and values and function in a safe and ethical manner. LLMs have the potential to exhibit unintended behavior due to their ability to learn and adapt in ways that are difficult to predict.
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• Abstract: The field of artificial intelligence (AI) alignment aims to investigate whether AI technologies align with human interests and values and function in a safe and ethical manner. AI alignment is particularly relevant for large language models (LLMs), which have the potential to exhibit unintended behavior due to their ability to learn and adapt in ways that are difficult to predict. In this paper, we discuss methodological challenges for the alignment problem specifically in the context of LLMs trained to summarize texts. In particular, we focus on methods for collecting reliable human feedback on summaries to train a reward model which in turn improves the summarization model. We conclude by suggesting specific improvements in the experimental design of alignment studies for LLMs' summarization capabilities.

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