The process of fine-tuning, training, and applying safety constraints to ensure a model's outputs match human safety guidelines, legal rules, and ethical standards.

A top-tier 2020s AI safety term. It treats setting bad-word filters and safety rules like aligning the spiritual and moral compass of a synthetic mind, giving basic safety rules statecraft nobility.

• Spiritual Compass Metaphors: Framing setting safety filters and reinforcement rules as aligning a synthetic soul.
• Corporate PR Mask: Claiming perfect "model alignment" while software continues outputting biased or incorrect text.
• House-Cleaning Reality: Like adjusting a vacuum cleaner brush roller and calling it "vacuum alignment."

Westworld (2010s) scene where Bernard Lowe sits in the subterranean glass room, holding a tablet and carefully adjusting moral attribute sliders on a host body.

Training and filtering a software model to ensure its outputs follow safety rules and guidelines.

“Our model alignment process filters out toxic text and enforces corporate policy compliance.”

“We applied strict safety filtering to our text model so its responses stay professional and follow company guidelines.”