Today, I explored a lecture from the AI Safety Book series as part of my AI safety studies. Below is the resource I reviewed.
Resource: AI Safety Book (Chapter 3: Single-Agent Safety)
- Source: This lecture is the third chapter of the AI Safety Book , presented in video format. The specific video is Lecture 3 | Single-Agent Safety .
- Summary: This lecture focuses on the problem of aligning a single AI agent with human intentions. It covers key challenges like reward misspecification (the AI optimizing for the wrong goal), reward hacking (the AI gaming its reward function), and the difficulty of ensuring the agent behaves safely in all situations. Understanding these single-agent problems is a prerequisite for tackling more complex multi-agent and societal-level challenges.