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#364 - Stuart Russell - The Terrifying Problem Of AI Control

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How to Get Artificial Intelligence Wrong?

The current approach to a i, which has been there really since the beginningad in the book human compatible, i call it the standard model. The problem is that we don't know how to specify the objective completely and correctly. And so for artificially defined problems, like chess, it kind of fooling us into thinking that is an easy problem to solve. But if you prioritize safety above everything else, then you're never going to leave the garage because just going out on to the road incurs some risk. You can see things go wrong really fast, such as curing cancer or fixing carbon dioxide levels. We have to tweak all the objectives to getting to behave better - but even for that

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