In conversation with Artificial Intelligence: aligning language models with human values

Understand

Large-scale language technologies are increasingly used in various forms of communication with humans across different contexts.

• One particular use case for these technologies is conversational agents, which output natural language text in response to prompts and queries.
• This mode of engagement raises a number of social and ethical questions.
• For example, what does it mean to align conversational agents with human norms or values? Which norms or values should they be aligned with? And how can this be accomplished? In this paper, we propose a number of steps that help answer these questions.