There and Back Again: The AI Alignment Paradox

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20806v1
• Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 14:06:24 GMT
• Title: There and Back Again: The AI Alignment Paradox
• Authors: Robert West, Roland Aydin,
• Abstract summary: The better we align AI models with our values, the easier we make it for adversaries to misalign the models. With AI's increasing real-world impact, it is imperative that a broad community of researchers be aware of the AI alignment paradox.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The field of AI alignment aims to steer AI systems toward human goals, preferences, and ethical principles. Its contributions have been instrumental for improving the output quality, safety, and trustworthiness of today's AI models. This perspective article draws attention to a fundamental challenge inherent in all AI alignment endeavors, which we term the "AI alignment paradox": The better we align AI models with our values, the easier we make it for adversaries to misalign the models. We illustrate the paradox by sketching three concrete example incarnations for the case of language models, each corresponding to a distinct way in which adversaries can exploit the paradox. With AI's increasing real-world impact, it is imperative that a broad community of researchers be aware of the AI alignment paradox and work to find ways to break out of it, in order to ensure the beneficial use of AI for the good of humanity.

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