Meaning

1 senses
  1. A cost to the capabilities of an artificial intelligence resulting from the effects of aligning it with human ethics and morality.

Origin

First attested in a speech in 2019 by computer scientist Paul Christiano (see quotation),

First attested in a speech in 2019 by computer scientist Paul Christiano (see quotation), who attributed the idea to AI researcher and writer Eliezer Yudkowsky.

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Forms

plural: alignment taxes
Singularalignment tax
Pluralalignment taxes

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