0: Introduction 1: REPRESENTATION 2: FAIRNESS 3: TRANSPARENCY 4: REINFORCEMENT 5: SHAPING 6: CURIOSITY 7: IMITATION 8: INFERENCE 9: UNCERTAINTY 10: Conclusion
Brian Christian is the author of the acclaimed bestsellers The Most Human Human and Algorithms to Live By, which have been translated into nineteen languages. A visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, he lives in San Francisco.
Essential reading. Christian brings much needed clarity to a
subject that is often talked about but little understood.
*Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media*
Balanced and meticulously researched
*New Statesman*
Superb
*Hannah Fry, New Yorker*
Vital reading. This is the book on artificial intelligence we need
right now. Brian Christian takes us on a technically fluent (yet
widely accessible) journey through the most important questions
facing AI and humanity.
*Mike Krieger, cofounder of Instagram*
An abundantly researched and captivating book that explores the
road humanity has taken to create a successor for itself-a road
that's rich with surprising discoveries, unexpected obstacles,
ingenious solutions and, increasingly, hard questions about the
soul of our species.
*Jaan Tallinn, cofounder of Skype and the Future of Life
Institute*
A fascinating, provocative, and insightful tour of all the ways
that AI goes wrong and all the ways people are trying to fix it.
Essential reading if you want to understand where our world is
heading.
*Stuart Russell, author of Human Compatible*
A new field has emerged that responds to and scrutinizes the vast
technological shifts represented by our modern, virtual,
algorithmically defined world. In The Alignment Problem, Brian
Christian masterfully surveys the 'AI fairness' community,
introducing us to some of its historical roots in science,
philosophy, and activism; and crucially, many of its quandaries and
limitations.
*Cathy O'Neil, bestselling author of Weapons of Math
Destruction*
A riveting and deeply complex look at artificial intelligence and
the significant challenge in creating computer models that 'capture
our norms and values'... Lay readers will find Christian's
revealing study to be a helpful guide to an urgent problem in
tech.
*Publishers Weekly*
A deeply enjoyable and meticulously researched account of how
computer scientists and philosophers are defining the biggest
question of our time: how will we create intelligent machines which
will improve our lives rather than complicate or even destroy them?
There's no better book than The Alignment Problem at spelling out
the issues of governing AI safely.
*James Barrat, bestselling author of Our Final Invention*
Brian Christian is a fine writer and has produced a fascinating
book. AI seems destined to become, for good or ill increasingly
prominent in our lives. We should be grateful for this balanced and
hype-free perspective on its scope and limits.
*Martin Rees, Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics,
University of Cambridge*
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