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A Statistical Case Against Empirical Human-AI Alignment

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arxiv 2502.14581 v2 pith:YK5WY3C6 submitted 2025-02-20 cs.AI cs.CLcs.LGstat.OT

classification cs.AIcs.CLcs.LGstat.OT
keywords alignmentempiricalhuman-aistatisticaladvocatesaimsalternativesargue
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Empirical human-AI alignment aims to make AI systems act in line with observed human behavior. While noble in its goals, we argue that empirical alignment can inadvertently introduce statistical biases that warrant caution. This position paper thus advocates against naive empirical alignment, offering prescriptive alignment and a posteriori empirical alignment as alternatives. We substantiate our principled argument by tangible examples like human-centric decoding of language models.

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