Superalignment with Dynamic Human Values
Published in ICLR 2025 Workshop on Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment (BiAlign), 2025
Recommended citation: Florian Mai, David Kaczér, Nicholas Kluge Corrêa, Lucie Flek. (2025). "Superalignment with Dynamic Human Values." ICLR 2025 Workshop on Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment (BiAlign).
This paper sketches a roadmap for training a superhuman reasoning model to decompose complex tasks into subtasks amenable to human-level guidance, addressing scalable oversight and dynamic human values in AI alignment.
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Abstract
Two core challenges of alignment are 1) scalable oversight and 2) accounting for the dynamic nature of human values. While solutions like recursive reward modeling address 1), they do not simultaneously account for 2). We sketch a roadmap for a novel algorithmic framework that trains a superhuman reasoning model to decompose complex tasks into subtasks that are still amenable to human-level guidance. Our approach relies on what we call the part-to-complete generalization hypothesis, which states that the alignment of subtask solutions generalizes to the alignment of complete solutions. We advocate for the need to measure this generalization and propose ways to improve it in the future.