This chapter surveys eight research areas organized around one question: As learning systems become increasingly intelligent and autonomous, what design principles can best ensure that their behavior is aligned with the interests of the operators? The chapter focuses on two major technical obstacles to AI alignment: the challenge of specifying the right kind of objective functions and the challenge of designing AI systems that avoid unintended consequences and undesirable behavior even in cases where the objective function does not line up perfectly with the intentions of the designers. The questions surveyed include the following: How can we train reinforcement learners to take actions that are more amenable to meaningful assessment by intelligent overseers? What kinds of objective functions incentivize a system to “not have an overly large impact” or “not have many side effects”? The chapter discusses these questions, related work, and potential directions for future research, with the goal of highlighting relevant research topics in machine learning that appear tractable today.
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