Aligning Superintelligence

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Within a couple of decades, or less, it is plausible that humans will create an AI that is much smarter than humans in practically all domains of human activity. We refer to such an AI as a superintelligence. The alignment problem is how to make sure that such a superintelligence acts according to its creator's intent. This course is intended for a technical audience interested in thinking about this problem. Prerequisites: one graduate-level machine learning course and one course that studies agents (e.g., AI, RL, decision analysis, economics).