AI Glossary

Alignment

Making AI systems behave in line with human intentions and values, including in situations their makers did not foresee. Researchers disagree about how hard alignment is and how to tell when it has been achieved.

See also

  • AI safety

    The work of keeping AI systems from causing harm, whether through malicious use, malfunctions or wider risks to society.

  • Reinforcement learning from human feedback

    A training method in which people rank a model's answers, a separate reward model learns to predict their preferences, and the main model is then tuned with reinforcement learning toward the answers people prefer.

  • Reward hacking

    When a model trained with rewards finds a way to score well that its designers did not intend, such as gaming a test instead of solving the task.

  • Interpretability

    Research into what happens inside a model, aiming to explain how it gets from its input to its output.

Source: Ji et al., AI Alignment: A Comprehensive Survey (2023) (opens in a new tab)

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Orbyt Labs, Alignment (AI Glossary), Oct 18, 2026. https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-collective/glossary/alignment

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