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The research and engineering work that aims to make an AI system pursue goals its developers and users actually intend. Alignment covers reward design, evaluation, training methods such as RLHF and DPO, and the broader question of whether a model's behavior is honest, helpful, and harmless. The field is closely tied to AI safety.
AI alignment is now a recognized career track inside frontier labs and increasingly inside enterprise security teams. Hiring for AI safety engineering and AI policy work assumes baseline literacy in alignment terminology.
The cybersecurity glossary covers a parallel term for this concept on the cyber side of the convergence.
Read about Responsible AI Security in cybersecurity →The research and engineering work that aims to make an AI system pursue goals its developers and users actually intend. Alignment covers reward design, evaluation, training methods such as RLHF and DPO, and the broader question of whether a model's behavior is honest, helpful, and harmless. The field is closely tied to AI safety.
AI alignment is now a recognized career track inside frontier labs and increasingly inside enterprise security teams. Hiring for AI safety engineering and AI policy work assumes baseline literacy in alignment terminology.
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