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The Surgeon General’s Social Media Warning + A.I.’s Existential Risks
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The Failure Mode of AI
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The scenario that I most come back to is one where you have a company, let's say Google, and it has built AI systems that are powerful enough to automate most of the work that its own employees do. And at some point down this chain of AI kind of doing machine learning research and writing software to train the next generation of AI systems, the failure mode comes into play. If these AI systems are actually trying really intelligently and creatively to get that thumbs up from humans, the best way to do so may not forever be to just sort of basically do what the humans want but maybe be a little deceptive on the edges. It might be something more like gain access at a root level
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