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AI Alignment & AGI Fire Alarm - Connor Leahy

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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AI Alignment Is Very Close to Economics

If you're dealing with an entity that by definition is much more intelligent than you, you should try to predict what it will do. Formal decision theory is interesting from the perspective of trying to understand very powerful AI's. We might be able to say things about how these incredibly intelligent systems operate even without us themselves being that intelligent. If we build a super intelligence, how could we turn it off? Is it even possible to turn it off?"

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