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AI Safety & Governance · Recorded milestone

Alignment problem named

Recorded year1960

Norbert Wiener warns in Science that a learning machine may pursue the goal we gave it rather than the one we really meant.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.