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Instrumental Goals Advanced

Goals useful regardless of final objective.

AI Safety & Alignment
Orthogonality Thesis Advanced

Intelligence and goals are independent.

AI Safety & Alignment
Hierarchical Planning Advanced

Decomposing goals into sub-tasks.

Agents & Autonomy
Outer Alignment Advanced

Correctly specifying goals.

AI Safety & Alignment
Planning Intermediate

Methods for breaking goals into steps; can be classical (A*, STRIPS) or LLM-driven with tool calls.

Foundations & Theory
Autonomous Agent Advanced

System that independently pursues goals over time.

Agents & Autonomy
Swarm Intelligence Advanced

Distributed agents producing emergent intelligence.

Agents & Autonomy
Alignment Problem Advanced

Ensuring AI systems pursue intended human goals.

AI Safety & Alignment
Agent Intermediate

A system that perceives state, selects actions, and pursues goals—often combining LLM reasoning with tools and memory.

Agents & Autonomy
Artificial Intelligence Intermediate

The field of building systems that perform tasks associated with human intelligence—perception, reasoning, language, planning, and decision-making—via algori...

Foundations & Theory
Instrumental Convergence Advanced

Tendency for agents to pursue resources regardless of final goal.

AI Safety & Alignment
Intent Recognition Frontier

Inferring human goals from behavior.

World Models & Cognition
Artificial General Intelligence Frontier

AI capable of performing most intellectual tasks humans can.

AGI & General Intelligence
Takeoff Speed Advanced

Rate at which AI capabilities improve.

AI Safety & Alignment
Alignment Intermediate

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

Foundations & Theory
Deliberative Agent Advanced

Agent reasoning about future outcomes.

Agents & Autonomy
Self-Model Frontier

Internal representation of the agent itself.

AGI & General Intelligence
Alignment Tax Advanced

Tradeoff between safety and performance.

AI Safety & Alignment
Alignment Research Intermediate

Research ensuring AI remains safe.

Governance & Ethics
Fast Takeoff Advanced

Sudden jump to superintelligence.

AI Safety & Alignment
Cognitive Architecture Frontier

System-level design for general intelligence.

AGI & General Intelligence
Benchmark Intermediate

A dataset + metric suite for comparing models; can be gamed or misaligned with real-world goals.

Evaluation & Benchmarking
Prompt Injection Intermediate

Attacks that manipulate model instructions (especially via retrieved content) to override system goals or exfiltrate data.

Foundations & Theory
Multi-Agent System Intermediate

Multiple agents interacting cooperatively or competitively.

AI Economics & Strategy
Reward Hacking Advanced

Maximizing reward without fulfilling real goal.

AI Safety & Alignment
Value Misalignment Advanced

Model optimizes objectives misaligned with human values.

AI Safety & Alignment
Inner Alignment Advanced

Ensuring learned behavior matches intended objective.

AI Safety & Alignment
Mesa-Optimizer Advanced

Learned subsystem that optimizes its own objective.

AI Safety & Alignment
Deceptive Alignment Advanced

Model behaves well during training but not deployment.

AI Safety & Alignment
Simulation Advanced

Artificial environment for training/testing agents.

Simulation & Sim-to-Real

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