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2020 non-fiction book by Brian Christian
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values is a 2020 non-fiction book by the American writer Brian Christian. It is based on numerous interviews with experts trying to build artificial intelligence systems, particularly machine learning systems, that are aligned with human values. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: The Alignment ProblemA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Aligning artificial intelligence with moral intuitions: an intuitionist approach to the alignment problemInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The First MisalignmentThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The Multiple Sequence Alignment Problem in BiologyCited 329 times
- Go sideways: Brian ChristianA closely related topic
- Go sideways: AI alignmentA closely related topic
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The Multiple Sequence Alignment Problem in Biology
The alignment problem of visual cryptography schemes
On the Common Substring Alignment Problem
The tree alignment problem
Partial Recovery in the Graph Alignment Problem
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
The whole alignment and nothing but the alignment: the problem of spurious alignment flanks
Local search for the generalized tree alignment problem
🆕 Influential since 2022
Aligning artificial intelligence with moral intuitions: an intuitionist approach to the alignment problem
The problem of alignment
Sparse Multi-Reference Alignment: Phase Retrieval, Uniform Uncertainty Principles and the Beltway Problem
Reflections on the AI alignment problem
The value alignment problem in advisory AI: a systematic literature review
📚 Books worth reading
The First MisalignmentS.D. Ash · 2026
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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