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Law Informs Code: A Legal Informatics Approach To Aligning Artificial Intelligence With Humans, John J. Nay
Law Informs Code: A Legal Informatics Approach To Aligning Artificial Intelligence With Humans, John J. Nay
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities are rapidly advancing. Highly capable AI could cause radically different futures depending on how it is developed and deployed. We are unable to specify human goals and societal values in a way that reliably directs AI behavior. Specifying the desirability (value) of AI taking a particular action in a particular state of the world is unwieldy beyond a very limited set of state-action-values. The purpose of machine learning is to train on a subset of states and have the resulting agent generalize an ability to choose high value actions in unencountered circumstances. Inevitably, the function ascribing …