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Align your AI

The problem space

The layers of an AI system against the failures they meet, one line per pair. A pair drawn in ultraviolet has a page; the rest are coming.

Model

the weights you run

Data

the examples it learns from

Harness

the software around the model

Context

what it reads before it answers

Devices

the machines it runs on or moves

Agents

models that act in steps

Evals

the tests that score it

Monitors

the checks that watch it work

Memory

what it keeps between sessions

Tools

the apps and add-ons it can use

Prompts

the instructions it reads before your message

Incentives

what the people around it are rewarded for

Objectives

what its training rewards

Internals

the activity inside the model

Updates

every change after launch

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Each line is a pair: a layer and a failure. An ultraviolet line has a page.