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Joe Carlsmith on How We Change Our Minds About AI Risk

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AI Risk: A Tough Game

I don't know if we're fundamentally confused. I think there may be some conceptual confusion that makes this discourse not even wrong or in some sense kind of having missed, having missed the basic story. There's this notion that there's a right way to understand the goals of an AI system is via the kind of utility function. And then you gotta like maximize really hard and utility function and utility functions diverge when they are maximized. It's an empirical prediction as well about what is the right way to carve up the future.

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