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The challenge of ensuring that the actions of individuals and systems — whether human or machine — are consistent with shared goals, reflect our values, and promote societal well-being is known as "the alignment problem." Over millennia, humans have developed many coordination and cooperation "technologies" — such as customs, values, norms, laws, organizations, governments, and markets—that partially solve the problem of human intelligence alignment. As we develop and deploy advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, we are similarly concerned that their use is consistent with shared goals, reflect our values, and promote societal well-being. In this course we will explore the parallels between human intelligence alignment and machine intelligence alignment to help engineers and technologists become reflective practitioners who can grapple wisely with the alignment problem broadly understood. The ePortfolio tag(s) on this course signify that there are one or more assignments offered in the course that provide students with the opportunity to be assessed for proficiency in completion of the relevant ePortfolio requirement(s).