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AI Alignment

AI alignment is the study and practice of making artificial intelligence systems behave in ways that accord with intended goals, preferences, constraints, or institutions. The term is used at several levels.

AI SafetyMachine Learning

AI Anxiety

The term "Artificial Intelligence" (AI) anxiety describes the fear, stress, distress, and trepidation that people feel in response to the development and increasing role of artificial intelligence in daily…

Artificial Intelligence

AI bias

AI bias (also called algorithmic bias) is systematic, repeatable error in artificial intelligence systems that produces unfair, discriminatory, or skewed outcomes, typically disadvantaging groups defined by…

AI SafetyArtificial Intelligence

AI ethics

AI ethics is the field that studies the moral principles, values, and frameworks governing how artificial intelligence systems are designed, built, deployed, and used, and the obligations that developers and…

AI SafetyArtificial Intelligence

AI regulation

AI regulation is the body of laws, binding rules, technical standards, and government enforcement mechanisms that oversee how artificial intelligence systems are built, sold, and used.

AI SafetyArtificial Intelligence

AI-generated content

AI-generated content (also called AIGC or synthetic media) is text, images, video, audio, music, or code produced wholly or partly by artificial intelligence systems rather than by a human author.

Artificial Intelligence

Algorithmic fairness

Algorithmic fairness is the study of how automated decision systems can be made to produce decisions that are equitable across protected attributes such as race, gender, age, religion, and disability.

AI SafetyMachine Learning

Amanda Askell

Amanda Askell is a Scottish philosopher and artificial intelligence researcher who works on fine-tuning and alignment at Anthropic, where she leads the team responsible for the character, persona, and values…

AI SafetyPeople

Amazon Mechanical Turk

Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing marketplace operated by Amazon in which businesses and researchers ("requesters") post small paid tasks that a distributed pool of workers completes over the…

AI HistoryAI Tools & Products

Automation Bias

Automation bias is the tendency for humans to favor suggestions and outputs from automated decision-making systems over contradictory information from non-automated sources

Machine Learning

Autonomous weapons

Autonomous weapons, usually discussed under the label lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), are weapon systems that, once activated, can select and engage targets without further intervention by a human…

AI Policy & RegulationAI Safety

Bias

Bias in artificial intelligence carries three distinct technical meanings: a learnable scalar parameter added inside a neuron, the systematic error component of an estimator (the "bias" in the bias-variance…

Machine LearningNeural Networks

BookCorpus

BookCorpus (also written BooksCorpus, and sometimes called the Toronto Book Corpus) is a text dataset built from free, self-published English-language ebooks scraped from the distribution platform Smashwords.

Data & DatasetsNatural Language Processing

COMPAS (recidivism risk assessment)

COMPAS (Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions) is a proprietary actuarial risk-assessment instrument used by United States courts and corrections agencies to estimate the…

Confirmation Bias

Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in ways that confirm one's preexisting beliefs, and in artificial intelligence it appears in three main forms: human…

AI SafetyData Science

Copyright and AI

Copyright and AI is the body of law, agency practice, and litigation that governs how copyright applies to systems that learn from existing works and produce new material. Two questions dominate the field.

AI Policy & RegulationGenerative AI

Counterfactual Fairness

Counterfactual fairness is a formal definition of algorithmic fairness rooted in causal inference: a prediction is counterfactually fair toward an individual if it would remain unchanged in a counterfactual…

Machine LearningStatistics

Deepfake

A deepfake is synthetic media in which a real person's face, voice, or body is digitally replaced, manipulated, or fabricated using artificial intelligence, most often deep learning techniques such as…

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Vision

Demographic Parity

Demographic parity, also called statistical parity or acceptance rate parity, is a fairness criterion in machine learning that requires a model's predictions to be statistically independent of a protected…

Machine Learning

Differential privacy

Differential privacy is a mathematical definition of privacy that guarantees the output of an analysis is essentially unchanged whether or not any single individual's record is included in the input

Computer ScienceStatistics

ELIZA effect

The ELIZA effect is the tendency of people to attribute understanding, empathy, and other human mental states to a computer program on the strength of its conversational output

AI HistoryConversational AI

Effective Altruism

Effective altruism (often abbreviated EA) is a philosophical and social movement that uses evidence and careful reasoning to identify the most effective ways to benefit others

AI Safety

Effective accelerationism

Effective accelerationism (often abbreviated e/acc) is a techno-optimist ideological movement that advocates for the maximum acceleration of technological development, particularly artificial intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence

Equality of Opportunity

Equality of opportunity is a group-fairness criterion in machine learning that requires a classifier's true positive rate (TPR) to be equal across all groups defined by a sensitive attribute: qualified…

Machine Learning

Equalized Odds

Equalized odds is a group fairness criterion in machine learning that requires a classifier's true positive rate (TPR) and false positive rate (FPR) to be equal across all groups defined by a protected…

Machine Learning

Experimenter's Bias

Experimenter's bias (also called the observer-expectancy effect, experimenter expectancy effect, or experimenter effect) is a type of cognitive bias in which a researcher's expectations or beliefs about the…

Machine LearningStatistics

Explainable AI

Explainable AI (XAI) refers to artificial intelligence systems and techniques designed so that humans can understand how and why the system reaches its decisions, predictions, or recommendations.

Interpretability

Fairlearn

Fairlearn is an open-source Python toolkit for assessing and improving the fairness of machine-learning models with respect to sensitive attributes such as race, gender, or age.

AI Tools & ProductsMicrosoft

Fairness Constraint

A fairness constraint is an explicit mathematical condition imposed on a machine learning model during training, evaluation, or post-processing that forces its predictions to satisfy a specified group-fairness…

Machine Learning

Feedback Loop

A feedback loop in machine learning is a cycle in which a deployed model's predictions influence the real world, and the resulting data is then collected and used to retrain the same model

Machine Learning

Implicit Bias

Implicit bias is an umbrella term that, in artificial intelligence and machine learning, refers to systematic tendencies operating below the surface of explicit design choices.

Machine Learning

In-Group Bias

In-group bias (also called in-group favoritism or in-group preference) is the systematic tendency to favor members of one's own social group over members of other groups

Machine Learning

Incompatibility of Fairness Metrics

The incompatibility of fairness metrics (also called the impossibility theorem of fairness or fairness trade-offs) is the proven mathematical result that several widely used definitions of algorithmic fairness…

Machine Learning

Individual Fairness

Individual fairness is the principle in machine learning that any two individuals who are similar with respect to a task should receive similar algorithmic outcomes.

Machine Learning