Brian Christian '06, bestselling author of The Alignment Problem, and Brian Strope '89, research scientist, discusses the progress and problems of over the last five years, the field of machine learning has experienced incredibly rapid growth, and with that growth have come increasing concerns about potential harms, both present, and near-future. High-profile successes have alternated with equally high-profile failures and controversies, and questions of ethics and safety have shifted from being somewhat taboo to comprising one of the central topics of the field: the so-called "alignment problem."

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