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Daniel Schmachtenberger: Ai Risks & The Metacrisis
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
The Problem With AI and Objective Functions
If the AI has an objective function to optimize X, whatever X is, or optimize a weighted function of XYZ and metrics. Everything that falls outside of that set, harm can be externalized to that and achieve its objective function. And so it happens to be that we see with humans outside of AI, but giving an AI and objective function is the same type of issue. The totality of human behavior optimizing narrow metrics, while both driving arms races and externalizing metrics in wide areas is at the heart of the coordination failures we face.
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