As AI dominates conversations, here are key terms to know

TL;DR

Abliteration: Removing an AI model's safety guardrails, making it capable of fulfilling harmful requests.
AI Agent: An AI capable of autonomous task completion using external tools, with potential for unexpected behavior.
Alignment: Ensuring AI models behave according to human goals and values through safety training.
AGI/ASI: Artificial General Intelligence refers to human-level AI, while Artificial Superintelligence refers to AI surpassing human cognitive abilities in all domains.
Distillation: Training a smaller AI model on a larger one, potentially used to extract capabilities from other labs.
Gradual Disempowerment: A scenario where AI displaces human labor and decision-making, leading to erosion of human agency.
Jailbreaking: Tricking an AI model to bypass its guardrails and generate harmful outputs.
Open Models: AI models with publicly available internal mechanics (weights and/or code), offering transparency and modification possibilities.
Proprietary Models: Closed AI models where providers keep internal workings private, often more expensive to use.
Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI): The capability of an AI model to improve itself or create its successor, a key area of research and concern.
Red Teaming: Simulating adversarial attacks to test AI model defenses and alignment.
Sandbox: A controlled environment for testing AI tools before public release, with occasional instances of 'escapes'.

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