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AlignmentSafety Updated 2026

Alignment

The work of making an AI system's behaviour match human intent and values — why a model follows instructions reliably and refuses harmful requests.

Alignment research aims to ensure capable models do what their designers and users actually want. Practical techniques include learning from human preferences (Christiano et al., 2017), instruction-following via RLHF (Ouyang et al., 2022), and rule-guided self-improvement as in Constitutional AI (Bai et al., 2022).

Alignment is an open problem, not a solved checkbox: as models grow more capable, specifying and verifying intended behaviour becomes harder, not easier.

References

Primary, peer-reviewed and archival sources for this definition.

Deep Reinforcement Learning from Human Preferences
Christiano, P., Leike, J., Brown, T. B., Martic, M., Legg, S., & Amodei, D. (2017). Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30 (NeurIPS 2017).
Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback
Ouyang, L., Wu, J., Jiang, X., Almeida, D., Wainwright, C. L., et al. (2022). Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 (NeurIPS 2022).
Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback
Bai, Y., Kadavath, S., Kundu, S., Askell, A., Kernion, J., et al. (2022). arXiv preprint (Anthropic).

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MultipleChat. "Alignment." MultipleChat AI & LLM Glossary, 2026. https://multiple.chat/ai-glossary/alignment

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