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Value generalisation: value correction

Zac Boring July 10, 2026 1 min read
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I firmly believe that value generalisation[1]is the key to AI Alignment. That, indeed, it is necessary and almost sufficient for alignment.But I won't be arguing that grand point today; instead, I'll focus on a specific RL example of an agent that displays value correction: it realises its current reward function is (probably) incorrect, and acts to correct it.Thus there are:The initial situation, in distribution, where the human displays how to maximise the true reward.The out of distribution s

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