English Explanatory Dictionary

alignment tax

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A cost to the capabilities of an artificial intelligence resulting from the effects of aligning it with human ethics and morality.

Word forms

alignment tax alignment taxes

Etymology

First attested in a 2019 speech by computer scientist Paul Christiano (see quotation), who attributed the idea to AI researcher and writer Eliezer Yudkowsky.

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