Effective Altruism is a growing social movement based on the idea that good intentions alone, while admirable, are not enough to have an impact. Instead, we are committed to combining compassion with reasoning and evidence to work out how to best improve the world. With this broad approach, we tackle some of the most challenging questions facing us: what global problems should we prioritize, what strategies have the best chances of solving them, and how can we best use our careers, donations, resources and efforts to contribute to these?
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AI Alignment Fundamentals Program
Investigate the technical AI alignment problem. AI Alignment is the problem of directing capable AI systems toward objectives in line with human values, rather than objectives that correlate with our desired objective on familiar examples but diverge in important and potentially catastrophic ways. The program is aimed at critically unders
Investigate the technical AI alignment problem. AI Alignment is the problem of directing capable AI systems toward objectives in line with human values, rather than objectives that correlate with our desired objective on familiar examples but diverge in important and potentially catastrophic ways. The program is aimed at critically understanding the fundamental technical challenges of AI alignment and investigating potential solutions.