#63 – Ben Garfinkel on AI Governance
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The Abstract Instrumental Convergence Argument for Machine Learning
There's some sort of story here of like why we've avoided this as another analogy, humans. You can make a similar argument to the instrumental convergence argument about how matter is arranged in a room. Or even just for machine learning systems themselves, you might imagine training a toy train through some sort of reinforcement learning or feedback process. Like there's no actual causal relationship in that case between instrument convergence and difficulty of making it act in a way that you want it to.
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