Saturday, May 10, 2025

Norbert Wiener's Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation

Norbert Wiener's Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation

Excerpt: ″Norbert Wiener, the founder of Cybernetics, famously highlighted this in his 1960 paper, called “Some Moral Technical Consequences of Automation”, which brought forth the alignment problem, which is still unresolved as of writing. The problem can be boiled down to how do we get AI systems to do what we want to them do. This concept is largely derived from the economics concept of the principal-agent problem, except we are talking about two foreign agents which complicates the matter.″

Source: dmantena.substack.com