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alignment taxes

alignment taxes is the plural of alignment tax.

Meaning of alignment tax

Noun

alignment tax (plural alignment taxes)

  1. (artificial intelligence) A cost to the capabilities of an artificial intelligence resulting from the effects of aligning it with human ethics and morality.
    • I like this notion of an "alignment tax" […] the reason I might compromise is if there's some tension, between having the AI that's robustly trying to do what I want, and having the AI that is competent or intelligent, and the alignment tax is intended to capture that gap—that cost that I incur if...2019 August 29, Paul Christiano, Current work in AI alignment, EA Global San Francisco 2019

Questions about alignment taxes

What is alignment taxes the plural of?
Alignment taxes is the plural of alignment tax.

Words near alignment taxes in the dictionary

  1. alignment charts
  2. alignment diagram
  3. alignment diagrams
  4. alignment problem
  5. alignment tax
  6. alignment taxes
  7. alignments
  8. aligns
  9. aligot
  10. aligoté
  11. aligotés

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