Mindfulness for Computers? Buddhist Practice and the AI "Alignment Problem"

Can training in mindfulness help AI to align its values more wisely? I'll look at how honesty requires self-awareness, and how mindfulness can help. I'll also consider how AI systems might use internal feedback loops to monitor their own apparent mental states and learn from them, based on a recent research paper.

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✅ Referenced videos of mine:
Buddhism and the AI "Alignment Problem" --    • Buddhism and the AI "Alignment Problem"  
The Five Hindrances to Meditation: "Armies of Māra” —    • The Five Hindrances to Meditation: "A...  
Mindfulness for beginners —    • Mindfulness for Beginners  

✅ Suttas mentioned:
https://suttacentral.net/mn10/en/sujato
https://suttacentral.net/mn19/en/sujato

✅ Other material mentioned:
Ilya Sutskever tweet: https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/15...
Noah Shinn, et al., “Reflexion: an autonomous agent with dynamic memory and self-reflection” https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.11366.pdf
Anālayo, “Monitoring and Acceptance: Key Dimensions in Establishing Mindfulness” https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

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00:00 Intro
01:53 Optimizing for honesty
02:54 Four Foundations of Mindfulness
05:05 Mindfulness in AI systems
08:55 “Sentiment analysis” and mindful AI practice
12:21 Hindrances and mindfulness in AI

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