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Jeremie Harris: Realistic Alignment and AI Policy

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

CHAPTER

The Intrinsic Difficulties of Catastrophic Risk From AI

The argument for catastrophic risk from AI is a little odd in that there are a bunch of different independent paths that people will argue each lead to the same outcome. So what I'll be sharing here would be like my three that I think are most concerning. And then maybe I'll sort of use that to address this question of like can we not just make these things nice? We're going to have to find a way to encode that at the level of the loss function or the optimization function more generally.

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