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AI safety needs social scientists
OpenAI publishes a paper calling for social scientists to join AI safety research, citing gaps in understanding human psychology, rationality, and bias as critical to alignment work.
We’ve written a paper arguing that long-term AI safety research needs social scientists to ensure AI alignment algorithms succeed when actual humans are involved. Properly aligning advanced AI systems with human values requires resolving many uncertainties related to the psychology of human rationality, emotion, and biases.
The aim of this paper is to spark further collaboration between machine learning and social science researchers, and we plan to hire social scientists to work on this full time at OpenAI.
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