ETHICS-2023 Session E4 - Tutorial: AI Safety, governance, and alignment tutorial

The field of AI safety, governance, and alignment (SGA) is concerned with questions about how to integrate AI with human values. Topics in this area deal with (1) the transformative capabilities of AI within the global innovation helix; (2) the difficulty of controlling AI, esp. with regard to designing & setting goals, and interpreting & explaining AI behavior; and (3) the difficulty of governing AI, esp. with regard to establishing policies that ensure we develop beneficial AI and implementing practices across the broad domains of the global innovation helix to prevent catastrophic outcomes for humanity. With this in mind, one of the greatest tools that we have for obviating any risk to humanity is to educate technologists so that they can implement strategies during the design and testing phases of AI, prior to release.