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Holden Karnofsky - Transformative AI & Most Important Century

Dwarkesh Podcast

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Is AI Alignment a Form of Lock In?

If the goal of AI research is to prevent drift from human values, then you might be locking in values that are suboptimal. I mostly think of AI alignment as just trying to avoid a really bad thing happening. We'd like to avoid having these systems that have these random goals and we gave them by accident. And so we get this world that's just like doing this random thing that we did by accident.

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