{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/foundational-challenges-in-assuring-alignment","title":"Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models","arxiv_id":"2404.09932","date":"2024-04-15","proceeding":null,"authors":["Usman Anwar","Abulhair Saparov","Javier Rando","Daniel Paleka","Miles Turpin","Peter Hase","Ekdeep Singh Lubana","Erik Jenner","Stephen Casper","Oliver Sourbut","Benjamin L. Edelman","Zhaowei Zhang","Mario Günther","Anton Korinek","Jose Hernandez-Orallo","Lewis Hammond","Eric Bigelow","Alexander Pan","Lauro Langosco","Tomasz Korbak","Heidi Zhang","Ruiqi Zhong","Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh","Gabriel Recchia","Giulio Corsi","Alan Chan","Markus Anderljung","Lilian Edwards","Aleksandar Petrov","Christian Schroeder de Witt","Sumeet Ramesh Motwan","Yoshua Bengio","Danqi Chen","Philip H. S. Torr","Samuel Albanie","Tegan Maharaj","Jakob Foerster","Florian Tramer","He He","Atoosa Kasirzadeh","Yejin Choi","David Krueger"],"abstract":"This work identifies 18 foundational challenges in assuring the alignment and safety of large language models (LLMs). These challenges are organized into three different categories: scientific understanding of LLMs, development and deployment methods, and sociotechnical challenges. Based on the identified challenges, we pose $200+$ concrete research questions.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09932v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.09932v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"foundational-challenges-in-assuring-alignment","repo_url":"https://github.com/thuccslab/figstep","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":{"status":"ok","spdx":"MIT"}}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2404.09932","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}