Normative Alignment

AI Alignment, Explained: The Technical and Normative Problems—and How OpenAI and Anthropic Are Tackling Them

AI alignment is the challenge of ensuring advanced AI systems reliably pursue goals beneficial to humans, a problem relevant today for systems like chatbots. The field faces both technical (how to inscribe values) and normative (which values to inscribe) challenges, with leading labs like OpenAI and Anthropic developing distinct strategies.