I’ve been exploring this for the last year, I think it’s a promising avenue for solving some key alignment issues. Homeostatic approaches are well documented in neuroscience but a surprisingly neglected approach to alignment. Research in support: Managing competing drives, homeostatic approaches ensure safety wins out -Mathematical formalisations by Laurençon et al, Kermati and Gutkin-Robotics researchers successfully implemented a homeostatic approach to help a system manage competing drives -Friston suggests it’s a way to manage Free Energy Scaling to group behaviourThis could mathematically support Joel Leibo and team’s appropriateness agenda and provide a mechanism for the unsolved problem of alignment with changing and influenceable reward functions. Declaration of interest: I recently joined Roland at Aintelope to support this agenda alongside other applications from neuroscience to alignment!
I’ve been exploring this for the last year, I think it’s a promising avenue for solving some key alignment issues. Homeostatic approaches are well documented in neuroscience but a surprisingly neglected approach to alignment.
Research in support:
Managing competing drives, homeostatic approaches ensure safety wins out
-Mathematical formalisations by Laurençon et al, Kermati and Gutkin
-Robotics researchers successfully implemented a homeostatic approach to help a system manage competing drives
-Friston suggests it’s a way to manage Free Energy
Scaling to group behaviour
This could mathematically support Joel Leibo and team’s appropriateness agenda and provide a mechanism for the unsolved problem of alignment with changing and influenceable reward functions.
Declaration of interest: I recently joined Roland at Aintelope to support this agenda alongside other applications from neuroscience to alignment!