Comment by RUTHECHANG@GMAIL.COM on When was the term "AI alignment" coined? · 2025-03-04T15:27:38.906Z · LW · GW

I have just asked Stuart Russell this question at an event I co-hosted featuring him as the speaker. He says he did not coin the name of the problem. Still unclear who did, but the conceptualization of the problem goes at least as far back as Norbert Weiner in the 1960s and likely further back still.