Mesa-Optimization - AI Alignment Forum - alignmentforum.org  ## Metadata - Author: **alignmentforum.org** - Full Title: Mesa-Optimization - AI Alignment Forum - Category: #articles - Tags: #ai #optimization - URL: https://www.alignmentforum.org/tag/mesa-optimization ## Highlights - Mesa-Optimization is the situation that occurs when a learned model (such as a neural network) is itself an optimizer. In this situation, a base optimizer creates a second optimizer, called a mesa-optimizer. The primary reference work for this concept is Hubinger et al.'s "Risks from Learned Optimization in Advanced Machine Learning Systems".