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Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society

Hendrycks, Dan

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly embedding itself within militaries, economies, and societies, reshaping their very foundations. Given the depth and breadth of its consequences, it has never been more pressing to understand how to ensure that AI systems are safe, ethical, and have a positive societal impact. This book aims to provide a comprehensive approach to understanding AI risk. Our primary goals include consolidating fragmented knowledge on AI risk, increasing the precision of core ideas, and reducing barriers to entry by making content simpler and more comprehensible. The book has been designed to be accessible to readers from diverse backgrounds. You do not need to have studied AI, philosophy, or other such topics. The content is skimmable and somewhat modular, so that you can choose which chapters to read. We introduce mathematical formulas in a few places to specify claims more precisely, but readers should be able to understand the main points without these.



30 / SEARCH AND SEARCH REPRESENTATIONS

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Specifically, it is concerned with control strategies governing the formation and refinement of partial hypotheses about the identity of an utterance that can guarantee the discovery of the best possible interpretation. We assume a system that contains the following components: a) A Lexical Retrieval component that can find the k best matching words in any region of an utterance subject to certain constraints and can be recalled to continue enumerating word matches in decreasing order of goodness (where possible constraints include anchoring the left or right end of the word to particular points in the utterance or to particular adjacent word matches).



PROGRAM SYNTHESIS / 141

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Program synthesis is the systematic derivation of a program from a given specification. A deductive approach to program synthesis is presented for the construction of recursive programs. This approach regards program synthesis as a theorem-proving task and relies on a theorem-proving method that combines the features of transformation rules, unification, and mathematical induction within a single framework. MOTIVATION The early work in program synthesis relied strongly on mechanical theoremproving techniques. The work of Green [5] and Waldinger and Lee [13], for example, depended on resolution-based theorem proving; however, the difficulty of representing the principle of mathematical induction in a resolution framework hampered these systems in the formation of programs with iterative or recursive loops. More recently, program synthesis and theorem proving have tended to go their separate ways. Newer theorem-proving systems are able to perform proofs by mathematical induction (e.g., Boyer and Moore [2]) but are useless for program synthesis because they have sacrificed the ability to prove theorems involving existential quantifiers. In this paper we describe a framework for program synthesis that again relies on a theorem-proving approach. This approach combines techniques of unification, mathematical induction, and transformation rules within a single deductive system. We outline the logical structure of this system without considering the strategic aspects of how deductions are directed. Although no implementation exists, the approach is machine oriented and ultimately intended for implementation in automatic synthesis systems. In the next section we give examples of specifications accepted by the system. In the succeeding sections we explain the relation between theorem proving and our approach to program synthesis. SPECIFICATION The specification of a program allows us to express the purpose of the desired program, without indicating an algorithm by which that purpose is to be achieved.


202 / PROBLEM-SOLVING AND PLANNING

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The paper exhibits experience, and that of others using QA2 and QA3, solutions to these problems obtained by QA3, a one of the first difficulties encountered is the computer program based on these theorem-proving representation of problems, especially statetransformation methods.


Learning and Executing Generalized Robot Plans '

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In this paper we describe some major new additions to the STRIPS robot problem-solving Before getting into details (and defining just what we mean by generalize), system. The first addition is a process for generalizing a plan produced by STRIPS so that problem-specific constants appearing in the plan are replaced by problem-independent parameters.



An atomic WFF is either a sentential symbol or an application atomic WEE The idea of this theorem is that since it is easier to count than to construct the

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I want to review what 1 consider to be the important results of this paper. One is the observation that, when we reason, we use representations of the objects 11.2. Concluding remarks, history and thanks we are reasoning about as well as a representation of the facts about these objects.


traces the A Truth Maintenance System

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In this section, I propose another, quite different view about the nature To choose their actions, reasoning programs must be able to make assumptions and subsequently of reasoning. I incorporate some new concepts into this view, and the combination revise their beliefs when discoveries contradict these assumptions. The Truth Maintenance System overcomes the problems exhibited by the conventional view.