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Home/Glossary/AI Alignment
AI Glossary Term

What does “AI Alignment” mean?

Definition

The work of making AI systems behave according to human intentions, values, and safety constraints.

Related terms

AI Safety
A field focused on reducing harmful behavior, failures, and misuse risks in AI systems.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The broad field of building systems that perform tasks requiring pattern recognition, reasoning, language, or decision-making.
Alignment Tax
The extra cost in time, compute, or product velocity required to make systems safer and more controllable.
Jailbreak
A prompt technique intended to bypass a model's safety constraints.
AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)
A hypothetical AI system that can perform most intellectual tasks at a human level across many domains.
Annotation
Human-added labels or metadata used to train or evaluate machine learning models.

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See also

AI AgentAI GovernanceAlgorithmAlgorithmic BiasAlgorithmic TransparencyAPI (Application Programming Interface)Attention MechanismAutonomous System
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