{"id":2846,"date":"2023-11-06T15:32:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T15:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dist2.famnit.upr.si\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2023-11-06T15:34:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T15:34:12","slug":"monday-computer-science-seminar-6-11-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dist.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/2023\/11\/06\/monday-computer-science-seminar-6-11-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Computer Science Seminar (6.11.2023) &#8211; The AI alignment problem and its implications for society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PRESENTERS:<br \/>\n<strong>Uro\u0161 SERGA\u0160<\/strong>,<br \/>\nPhD student in Computer Science and teaching assistant at UP FAMNIT;<br \/>\n<strong>Jar \u017diga MARU\u0160I\u010c<\/strong>,<br \/>\nPhD student in Philosophy at UL FF and teaching assistant at UP FAMNIT;<\/p>\n<p>TITLE:<br \/>\n<strong>The AI alignment problem and its implications for society<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ABSTRACT:<br \/>\nHumanity has again found itself on the brink of a new era, as large language models (LLM) seem poised to bring about important social changes. As these models advance in complexity, the issue of AI alignment is gaining popularity in a daily conversation topic.<br \/>\nThis research explores two contrasting viewpoints on the AI alignment problem: the Orthogonalist perspective pioneered by Nick Bostrom and the Anti-orthogonalist critique formulated by Nick Land. The former posits that an AI\u2019s goals are independent of its intelligence, suggesting that a &#8220;friendly AI&#8221; (fully aligned to human values) is possible. The latter challenges its separation of intelligence and values from the perspective that intelligence increase leads to a greater ability for self-reflection, ultimately leading to a restructuring of its value structure to prioritize further cognitive enhancement. We discuss the implications of these ideas and highlight the current patterns seen in the developments of widely available AI tools, such as LLM.<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:<br \/>\nUro\u0161 Serga\u0161 is a PhD student in Computer Science at UP FAMNIT, Jar \u017diga Maru\u0161i\u010d is a PhD student in Philosophy at UL FF. Both are also teaching assistants at UP FAMNIT, Uro\u0161 in the Department of Information Sciences and Technologies, Jar in the Department of Psychology. Together they are interested in the implications and uses of artificial intelligence in society. Over the summer they researched the AI alignment problem.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2848\" src=\"https:\/\/dist2.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2023-11-06-16.09.04-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dist.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2023-11-06-16.09.04-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dist.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2023-11-06-16.09.04-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dist.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2023-11-06-16.09.04-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dist.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2023-11-06-16.09.04-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dist.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2023-11-06-16.09.04-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2847\" src=\"https:\/\/dist2.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2023-11-06-16.26.57-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dist.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2023-11-06-16.26.57-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dist.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2023-11-06-16.26.57-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dist.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2023-11-06-16.26.57-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dist.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2023-11-06-16.26.57-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dist.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2023-11-06-16.26.57-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESENTERS: Uro\u0161 SERGA\u0160, PhD student in Computer Science and teaching assistant at UP FAMNIT; Jar \u017diga MARU\u0160I\u010c, PhD student in Philosophy at UL FF and teaching assistant at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dist.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dist.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dist.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dist.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dist.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dist.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2850,"href":"https:\/\/dist.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions\/2850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dist.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dist.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dist.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dist.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}