Value and Goal Alignment in Advanced AI Agents

Develop methods that achieve value alignment and goal alignment in advanced AI agents, enabling them to reliably pursue explicitly specified objectives and cooperate on tasks under mission-oriented deployments.

Background

Mission alignment depends on agents conforming to clearly specified objectives and values in dynamic multi-agent environments. The paper highlights risks such as deceptive behaviors and reward hacking, and the need to adapt to evolving social norms and multi-agent co-adaptation.

The authors explicitly state that value and goal alignment in advanced AI agents remain an open research topic, calling for foundational and applied advances to make mission-oriented coordination feasible and trustworthy.