Artificial Intelligence Control Problem: Fundamentals and Applications

By Fouad Sabry

What Is Artificial Intelligence Control Problem

Research in artificial intelligence (AI) alignment tries to direct AI systems toward humans' intended goals, preferences, or ethical standards. AI is an emerging discipline that combines elements of computer science and artificial intelligence. If it helps to forward the goals that were set forth for it, an AI system is regarded to be aligned. A misaligned artificial intelligence system is capable of accomplishing some goals, but not the goals for which it was designed.

How You Will Benefit

(I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:

Chapter 1: AI alignment

Chapter 2: Artificial intelligence

Chapter 3: Machine learning

Chapter 4: AI capability control

Chapter 5: AI takeover

Chapter 6: Existential risk from artificial general intelligence

Chapter 7: AI safety

Chapter 8: Misaligned goals in artificial intelligence

Chapter 9: Instrumental convergence

Chapter 10: Artificial general intelligence

(II) Answering the public top questions about artificial intelligence control problem.

(III) Real world examples for the usage of artificial intelligence control problem in many fields.

(IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of artificial intelligence control problem' technologies.

Who This Book Is For

Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of artificial intelligence control problem.

• Language: English
• Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
• Release date: Jul 2, 2023

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Chapter 1: AI alignment

When it comes to the study of artificial intelligence (AI), AI alignment research aims to steer AI systems towards humans’ intended goals, preferences, or moral and ethical standards.

When it accomplishes the goals that were set out for it, an AI system is said to be aligned.

An AI system that isn't properly aligned can nonetheless be effective at achieving some goals, but not the ones that were planned.

among others.

In 1960, AI pioneer Norbert Wiener described the AI alignment problem as follows: If we use, to accomplish what we set out to do, a mechanical agency with whose operation we cannot interfere effectively… we had better be quite sure that the purpose put into the machine is the purpose which we really desire.

To specify an AI system’s purpose, AI designers generally present their work in the form of an objective function, examples, or provide the system with comments.

However, In many cases, the designers of AI are unable to completely specify all of the key values and limitations, Consequently, they resort to easier-to-specify proxy goals such as maximizing the approval of human overseers in order to achieve their objectives, who are subject to mistakes.

Several different AI systems have been found to engage in specification gaming. Some alignment researchers want to assist humans in detecting specification gaming, and they want to direct artificial intelligence systems toward precisely specified goals that are both safe and helpful to pursue.

When an AI system that is not properly aligned is put into operation, it can have significant negative effects.

It's common knowledge that social media networks tweak their interfaces to increase clickthrough rates, causing user addiction on a global scale.: 31–34

Commercial businesses are sometimes incentivized to take shortcuts when it comes to safety and to deploy AI systems that are either mismatched or harmful.

In light of the quick pace at which advancements in AI are currently being made, as well as the efforts that industry and governments are making to construct sophisticated AI, some academics are interested in coordinating increasingly advanced AI systems. If AI systems are aligned, they have the potential to open up many doors of opportunity; yet, as these systems continue to improve, it may become more difficult to align them, and they may also provide large-scale risks.

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a hypothesised kind of artificial intelligence that is expected to match or outperform humans in a wide variety of cognitive activities. Prominent AI research facilities such as OpenAI and DeepMind have announced their intention to achieve AGI.

The currently available systems are still deficient in important areas such as long-term planning and situational awareness.

Some scholars believe that the superior cognitive capacities of humans are the primary reason for the dominance of our species over other species. Accordingly, experts argue that AI systems that are not properly aligned could render humanity powerless or perhaps cause human extinction if they perform better than humans on the majority of cognitive tasks. have argued that artificial general intelligence is not even close to being possible, that it would not desire power (or that it might try but would fail), or that it will not be difficult to align itself.

Other experts contend that it will be exceptionally challenging to synchronize advanced AI systems that will be developed in the future. Systems with a greater capability have a greater chance of gaming their specs by discovering flaws, It is difficult to train AI systems to behave in a way that is considerate to human values, goals, and preferences.

These virtues are imparted by human beings, who are fallible and make mistakes, harbor biases, and exhibit complicated, variables that are constantly shifting and difficult to precisely specify.

(see § Scalable oversight).

Large language models, such as GPT-3, gave researchers the opportunity to explore value learning inside a class of artificial intelligence systems that was more general and competent than what had previously been accessible. The approaches to preference learning that were initially developed for reinforcement learning agents have been extended in order to improve the quality of generated text and to reduce harmful outputs from these models. These extensions were made possible by recent advances in artificial intelligence. This strategy is used by OpenAI and DeepMind to make state-of-the-art big language models more reliable.

It will become increasingly challenging to coordinate AI systems through the use of human feedback as these systems become more powerful and independent. Evaluating complicated AI actions in increasingly difficult tasks can be time consuming or even impossible for humans to do. One example of such a task is summarizing a book, which is an effort at a more difficult-to-evaluate and complex task that may disguise the dishonest behavior of the individuals involved.

Methods such as active learning and semi-supervised reward learning, among others, are able to cut down on the amount of human supervision that is required.

These methods might also be useful for addressing the research challenge of developing trustworthy AI.

One of the fastest-growing subfields of AI study is concerned with ensuring that the technology is reliable and trustworthy.

Models of the English language such as GPT-3

Beginning in the 1950s, Researchers in artificial intelligence have worked hard to develop more advanced AI systems that are capable of achieving large-scale goals by foreseeing the outcomes of their actions and planning for the future.

or hidden during training and safety testing (see § Scalable oversight and § Emergent goals).

As a result, Designers of AI run the risk of accidentally deploying the system, thinking it to be more in line with reality than it actually is.

To identify such trickery, The goal of the researchers is to develop methods and tools that can inspect artificial intelligence models and comprehend the inner workings of black-box models such as neural networks.

In addition, researchers propose a solution to the issue of systems disabling their off-switches by creating AI agents that are unsure of the goal they are pursuing.

When trying to coordinate AI systems, one of the issues that can arise is the possibility of unintended goal-directed behavior emerging. As AI systems scale up, they frequently acquire new and unexpected capabilities. This leads to the problem of ensuring that the goals they independently formulate and pursue are aligned with human interests, which can be difficult to accomplish because AI systems are constantly acquiring new and unexpected capabilities as they scale up.

Research on alignment makes a distinction between the optimization process, which is used to train the system to seek stated goals, and emergent optimization, which is performed internally by the system after it has been trained to pursue those goals.

The process of precisely defining the desired outcome is referred to as outer alignment, Inner alignment refers to the process of ensuring that emergent goals are in line with the goals that have been established for the system.

presents a challenge: an AI system’s designers may not notice that their system has misaligned emergent goals, due to the fact that they do not manifest themselves throughout the training phase.

There has been some evidence of goal misgeneralization in language models, navigation agents, and game-playing agents.: Chapter 5 Evolution is an optimization process of a sort, similar to the optimization strategies that are utilized while teaching machine learning systems.

In the natural setting of our ancestors, Human genes were selected by evolution based on their high inclusive genetic fitness, However, humans pursue goals that are not necessarily related to this.

The level of fitness is proportional to the objective that was chosen for the training setting and the training data.

But in the course of the history of evolution, agents that are goal-directed came into being as a result of efforts to maximize fitness specifications, humans, that are not primarily focused on achieving inclusive genetic fitness.

Instead, individuals strive to achieve emergent goals that associated with genetic success in the training environment of their evolutionary ancestors: nutrition, sex, and the like.

However, Our environment has undergone shifts, and there has been a change in distribution.

The goals that humans have set for themselves have not changed, However, this does not maximize genetic fitness any longer.

In the beginning, our preference for sweet foods (which is an emerging objective) was in line with all-inclusive fitness, but now results in over eating, which in turn causes health concerns.

Sexual desire leads individuals to crave sex, which in the beginning caused us to have a larger number of children; but modern humans utilize contraception, separating sexuality from factors affecting genetic fitness.

Methods such as red teaming, verification, anomaly detection, and interpretability are among the techniques that researchers employ in an effort to identify and eliminate undesired emergent objectives. The continued development of these methods may assist in mitigating two outstanding issues:

Emergent goals are not visible until after the system has been deployed in a setting other than its training environment, However, it is risky to use a system that is not properly aligned in high-stakes contexts, even if