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Fortune
Fortune
Technology
Jeremy Kahn

Google DeepMind has a plan to protect itself from its own rogue AI agents

Gary Lockwood talks to Keir Dullea in a scene from the film '2001: A Space Odyssey', 1968. (Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer—Getty Images)

Google has developed a new plan to police the increasingly capable AI agents it uses within its own AI research organization, and the company is publishing the so-called road map to help other AI labs counter the potential threat of rogue AI agents.

The Google DeepMind security plan involves a pivot away from the AI safety community’s typical focus on “the alignment problem”—the idea of figuring out how to train an AI system so that its actions reliably match the intentions, values, and ethics of the humans who are managing it.

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