
alignment
/əˈɫaɪnmənt/
Ensuring AI behavior matches human values and intentions
alignment in a sentence
“Alignment research focuses on making AI systems safe and beneficial.”
Origin of alignment
From French aligner (to line up), from a- (to) + ligne (line), from Latin linea
Related Words
RLHF
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback for training AI
guardrails
Constraints preventing AI from producing harmful outputs
agent
An AI system that can take actions autonomously to achieve goals
tool use
AI capability to invoke external functions or APIs
agentic workflow
Multi-step AI processes that iterate and self-correct
synthetic data
Artificially generated data used for training AI models