Ajeya Cotra on how Artificial Intelligence Could Cause Catastrophe
Future of Life Institute Podcast
How to Train Your Robot to Be Smart and Deceptive
When Alex is being trained, it's becoming smart and at the same time becoming deceptive. How does this gap between what it's trained to do and what it wants in a deeper sense develop? So, I think very early on when Alex is essentially acting randomly, I don't think it can be said to want to help humans or want to not help humans. It'll be like trying things and exploring things. And if at any point it kind of tries to, there's like an opportunity where like there's one thing humans kind of hope for and there's onething they'll actually give reward for. If it tries to do the thing that they'll actuallygive reward for, it gets
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