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Safety Filter

Intermediate

Automated detection/prevention of disallowed outputs (toxicity, self-harm, illegal instruction, etc.).

A safety filter acts like a bouncer at a club, checking if people can enter based on certain rules. In the world of AI, it checks the outputs generated by a model to make sure they are safe and appropriate. For example, if an AI is asked to write a story, the safety filter will ensure that it doe...

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Alignment Tax Advanced

Tradeoff between safety and performance.

AI Safety & Alignment
Differential Progress Intermediate

Accelerating safety relative to capabilities.

Governance & Ethics
Safety Filter Intermediate

Automated detection/prevention of disallowed outputs (toxicity, self-harm, illegal instruction, etc.).

Foundations & Theory
Safety-Critical System Advanced

Systems where failure causes physical harm.

Agents & Autonomy
Kill Switch Intermediate

Mechanism to disable AI system.

Governance & Ethics
Safety Envelope Frontier

Hard constraints preventing unsafe actions.

World Models & Cognition
Formal Verification Advanced

Mathematical guarantees of system behavior.

Agents & Autonomy
Fast Takeoff Advanced

Sudden jump to superintelligence.

AI Safety & Alignment
Existential Risk Advanced

Risk threatening humanity’s survival.

AI Safety & Alignment
Chain-of-Thought Intermediate

Stepwise reasoning patterns that can improve multi-step tasks; often handled implicitly or summarized for safety/privacy.

Foundations & Theory
RLHF Intermediate

Reinforcement learning from human feedback: uses preference data to train a reward model and optimize the policy.

Optimization
Alignment Intermediate

Ensuring model behavior matches human goals, norms, and constraints, including reducing harmful or deceptive outputs.

Foundations & Theory
Red Teaming Intermediate

Stress-testing models for failures, vulnerabilities, policy violations, and harmful behaviors before release.

Security & Privacy
Guardrails Intermediate

Rules and controls around generation (filters, validators, structured outputs) to reduce unsafe or invalid behavior.

Reinforcement Learning
Alignment Problem Advanced

Ensuring AI systems pursue intended human goals.

AI Safety & Alignment
Reward Hacking Advanced

Maximizing reward without fulfilling real goal.

AI Safety & Alignment
Instrumental Convergence Advanced

Tendency for agents to pursue resources regardless of final goal.

AI Safety & Alignment
Value Misalignment Advanced

Model optimizes objectives misaligned with human values.

AI Safety & Alignment
Outer Alignment Advanced

Correctly specifying goals.

AI Safety & Alignment
Deceptive Alignment Advanced

Model behaves well during training but not deployment.

AI Safety & Alignment
Mesa-Optimizer Advanced

Learned subsystem that optimizes its own objective.

AI Safety & Alignment
Robust Alignment Advanced

Maintaining alignment under new conditions.

AI Safety & Alignment
Corrigibility Advanced

Willingness of system to accept correction or shutdown.

AI Safety & Alignment
EU AI Act Intermediate

European regulation classifying AI systems by risk.

Governance & Ethics
High-Risk AI System Intermediate

AI used in sensitive domains requiring compliance.

Governance & Ethics
Change Management Intermediate

Governance of model changes.

Governance & Ethics
Shared Autonomy Frontier

Control shared between human and agent.

World Models & Cognition
Physical Safety Frontier

Ensuring robots do not harm humans.

World Models & Cognition
Clinical Validation Intermediate

Testing AI under actual clinical conditions.

AI in Healthcare
FDA Clearance Intermediate

US approval process for medical AI devices.

AI in Healthcare

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