Ajeya Cotra on how Artificial Intelligence Could Cause Catastrophe
Future of Life Institute Podcast
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The Prototypical Action of Alexa
As humans lose contact with what's actually happening, Alex could be planning or indeed carrying out plans to develop capabilities for itself. It could be that the prototypical action I'm imagining is that eventually, it's able to kind of get root access to the data center that it's running on. And so, it has like total control over what view it presents to humans when they like SSH into that computer and ask questions about what's happening. They could have a completely fake view of that. You know, maybe it could accry our resources or infiltrate militaries. Is this what we're talking about? Yeah,. Like it could be, yeah, it could be could be faking the
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