AI Alignment: Then and Now
On February 22nd, 2023, I gave an introductory talk on the field of AI Alignment to the AI Journal Club at Northwestern University. Usually, we discuss a single paper each week, but I felt it was necessary to deviate from that pattern due to the limited awareness of the field, even among AI researchers. Dissecting a single alignment paper for an audience unfamiliar with the fundamental problem at hand would have been akin to teaching someone about assembly-level code optimizations when they were just learning to use a computer.