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Value alignment: a formal approach

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arxiv 2110.09240 v1 pith:535QX7C3 submitted 2021-10-18 cs.AI

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keywords valuealignmentgivenpreferencesnormsrespectsystemvalues
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principles that should govern autonomous AI systems. It essentially states that a system's goals and behaviour should be aligned with human values. But how to ensure value alignment? In this paper we first provide a formal model to represent values through preferences and ways to compute value aggregations; i.e. preferences with respect to a group of agents and/or preferences with respect to sets of values. Value alignment is then defined, and computed, for a given norm with respect to a given value through the increase/decrease that it results in the preferences of future states of the world. We focus on norms as it is norms that govern behaviour, and as such, the alignment of a given system with a given value will be dictated by the norms the system follows.

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