improving AI that’s guaranteed to retain human-friendly goals forever, but I think it’s fair to say that we don’t yet know how to build one—or even whether it’s possible. In conclusion, the AI goal-alignment problem has three parts, none of which is solved and all of which are now the subject of active research. Since they’re so hard, it’s safest to start devoting our best efforts to them now, long before any superintelligence is developed, to ensure that we’ll have the answers when we need them.
